The Steam-Pump Jump

A Chronicles of St Marys short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you wont be able to resist Jodi Taylor.

Not one to let being banged up in Sick Bay stop her, Max has had a brilliant idea. But she needs Markham to execute it on her behalf. The subject of this cunning plan is Peterson, struggling with another bereavement and not doing very well. Whats needed to get him through it is sympathy, sensitivity, tact and understanding.

Step forward Mr Markham, for whom sympathy, sensitivity, etc., are things that happen to other people.

Combine a fanatic from R&D, a head of Security with his own problems, a steam-pump, two historians who cant even be in the same room as each other, some fractious Protestants and a large body of very dirty water.

Told in Markhams own words, this is the story of an intervention - St Marys style.

Readers love Jodi Taylor:

Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me

A great mix of British proper-ness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun

Addictive. I wish St Marys was real and I was a part of it

Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked

A tour de force