ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA — There’s something familiar about the largest private residence in the United States. Not that it looks like any house I’ve ever been inside nor even the grandest hotel I’ve ever stayed in on my travels (or ducked into to find a public washroom while pretending I was a guest). It was the Downton Abbey connection. Watching Downton Abbey before my arrival in Asheville, North Carolina where George […]
What happens in a bookstore when the doors close and the last customer leaves?
Atlanta, GEORGIA – They call themselves “Windies”, fans so inspired by just one book that they wear re-created costumes, quote whole scenes and name their children Bonnie.
The American Civil War was the most devastating conflict the United States ever endured.
Glenfinnan, SCOTLAND – This country’s most famous viaduct sneaks up on you, a curve veering into a landscape that was only a passing glimpse sideways on a journey.
Ystad, SWEDEN — It’s barely dawn over the Baltic Sea and the morning light brings into view my first crime scene.
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – The tattoo parlour in the Stockholm neighbourhood where The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo lives is abuzz with the sounds of sharp instruments puncturing flesh.
MONROEVILLE, ALABAMA—Sightings of Harper Lee who has given this Alabama town worldwide recognition are rare in the place she made famous.
