shaman

New blog post by mickleinapickle Merlin A carved wooden statue of Merlin stands in Carmarthen town centre. A mythical Celtic shaman, he was a constant in British folklore between the 5th and 15th centuries. There were reports of him in various guises up and down the west coast from Cornwall to...

Crime writer P.D. James reckoned that: 'What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.' Her observation is something that I've kept in the back of my mind, when writing my own Cornish Detective series. My protagonist detective is as much a healer as he is an...