80 ratings | 26 reviews | avg rating:4.58

Frances di Plino’s Followers (74)

Frances’s Bookshelves

to-read (11)
currently-reading (0)
read (81)
reviewed (27)
written-by-me (3)

Frances’s Friends (338)

Mary White

1,986 books | 433 friends

Marita Hansen

1,443 books | 2,818 friends

Catherine

377 books | 322 friends

Louise

208 books | 686 friends

T.A. Belshaw

71 books | 330 friends

Kirsty Greenwood

415 books | 706 friends

Vanessa Couchman

915 books | 226 friends

Laurence O'Bryan

109 books | 5,653 friends

More friends…

Frances di Plino

Goodreads Author

Website

http://www.francesdiplino.com

Twitter

francesdiplino

Genre

Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Member Since

March 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/francesdiplino

edit data

Frances di Plino (author of the D.I. Paolo Storey crime series: Bad Moon Rising, Someday Never Comes, Call it Pretending and Looking for a Reason) is the pseudonym of columnist, editor, children's author, non-fiction author and writing tutor, Lorraine Mace. Writing as Frances di Plino gives her the opportunity to allow the dark side of her personality to surface and take control.

As Lorraine Mace, she is a gentler creature, being humour columnist for Writing Magazine and writing agony aunt for Words with JAM. She writes fiction for the women’s magazine market, features and photo-features for monthly glossy magazines and is a writing competition judge for Writers’ Forum.

Winner of a Petra Kenney International Poetry Award, she has won and been ...more

159 posts
Frances di Plino's Blog

What's New? #crime

Hi everyone,

In this month's newsletter you'll find:

A teaser for the new book - Love HeartsAn interview with Louise Phillips, best-selling Irish crime authorA book recommendation - the first in Sheila Bugler's D.I. Ellen Kelly seriesA fun competitionA reader review of Bad Moon RisingA couple of weird and wonderful crime facts I hope you enjoy reading it.

June 2017 Newsletter

Read more of this blog post »

View more on Frances di Plino's website »

Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on June 02, 2017 04:10

View all 159 posts »

Combine Editions
Frances di Plino’s books

Average rating: 4.2 · 212 ratings · 62 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Bad Moon Rising (DI Paolo Storey #1) 4.17 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Someday Never Comes (DI Paolo Storey #2) 4.21 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Call It Pretending (DI Paolo Storey #3) 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking for a Reason (DI Paolo Storey #4) 4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wish You Were (Not) Here 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Frances di Plino…

Series by Frances di Plino

DI Paolo Storey (4 books)
by

Frances di Plino (Goodreads Author)

4.22 avg rating — 202 ratings

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
40k Book Club: * Welcome \| Introduce yourself	36	92	May 24, 2012 04:48PM
Anything Goes: * Recent purchases.	532	202	Apr 25, 2020 12:56AM
Goodreads Authors...: * Author List	7701	21022	Oct 26, 2025 02:59AM

More…

Frances’s Quotes

“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: evil, judgement, right

1207 likes

recent posts
Frances’s Groups

The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group — 31589 members — last activity 2 minutes ago
“It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over the ...more

UK Amazon Kindle Forum — 6623 members — last activity 2 hours, 41 min ago
Where every hour is happy hour.

Crooked Cat Authors & Readers — 40 members — last activity Dec 05, 2014 03:45AM
A platform for Crooked Cat authors and their readers to discuss their books.

Goodreads Librarians Group — 297926 members — last activity 12 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Q&A with David Robinson — 13 members — last activity May 13, 2012 02:32AM
May 10th to June 9th May 10th – June 9th: Coinciding with the launch of his psychological thriller, Voices, written under the pen name, David Shaw, au ...more

Q&A with Rachel Abbott — 84 members — last activity May 06, 2020 04:23AM
I would love to have an opportunity to chat to readers about my books, other people's books, writing - all things book related. Do come along and as ...more

MYSTERY NOVELS BOOK CLUB — 512 members — last activity Nov 11, 2021 12:11PM
For all the people who are devoted to the genre of mystery fiction, this is the place to be. The term mystery Fiction includes Crime fiction, detectiv ...more

Q&A with Gillian Hamer — 10 members — last activity Dec 03, 2012 12:31PM
...December 03, 2012 to January 02, 2013... Anything you'd like to know about my particular blend of cross-genre spooky thrillers. Anything you'd li ...more

More of Frances’s groups…

Frances’s Friend Comments

No comments have been added yet.