The 12 Suspects of Christmas – The SolutionPreviously in this periodical, the author put before you a Yuletide conundrum and now begs your indulgence to present her elegant solution… It was the second day of the Year of Our Lord 1896, wh...
The Daily Grind: A.D. GarrettWriter: A.D. Garrett Workspace: My office overlooks a reservoir. Which sounds idyllic, but isn’t. The reservoir is covered and is just a flat-topped, grassy mound. More romantically, the mound...
Christmas, 1895. The Old Manor House had been in the D’Argent family for generations and, as was traditional for the season, they always invited their closest family and friends to dine w...
A toxic family Christmas – Amy Bird, author of Hide and Seek explores the danger of relationships pushed to the edgePicture the Christmas dinner table. Everyone laughing happily as the champagne bubbles go up their nose, crackers explode, and the Christmas pudding is set alight just in time for you to devour it whi...
Murder Will Out- Alison JosephEvery other Tuesday we feature a publication from leading independent publisher Endeavour Press Ltd. Murder Will Out – Alison Joseph Free to download 23.12.2014 1923The Great War is over, but th...
Christmas secrets – Amy Bird, author of Hide and Seek, unwraps some sinister giftsChristmas. A time to be in the bosom of your family. Your nearest and dearest. Whom you know everything about and trust implicitly. Right? But what if everything around you is fake. I don’t mean the t...
Any writer worth their salt knows how to flesh out a protagonist. A crime-solving hero (or anti-hero) must be a three-dimensional creature with strengths and flaws, quirks and history. If you talked a...
CWA Margery Allingham Short Story CompetitionThe CWA Margery Allingham Short Story competition was set up in 2013 to celebrate the short story and Margery Allingham’s contribution to crime writing. Supported by the Margery Allingham Society we a...
I like to think of myself as an eclectic reader but, in truth, I return to the same things again and again. I’m a sucker for historical mysteries – from Paul Doherty’s The Mask of...
‘Tis the Season: Writing with the Weather – Rosie ClavertonIt’s always raining in Wales. This is, of course, a fallacy. It only rains on about half the days of the year in Wales, less so in Cardiff. However, I feel a particular sense of homecoming when...
CWA Dagger in the Library announcedThe winner of the CWA’s Dagger in the Library award was n announced at an event at Waterstones Piccadilly. Unlike most other literary prizes, the Dagger in the Library honours an author’s body of work...
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, I have always loved crime fiction. And so when, a few years ago, I started writing I was sure my first book would be a mystery or whodunnit. Ho...
There’s no way round it, writing is about us writers applying the seats of our trousers, or skirts, to the seat of our computer chairs. However, sometimes moving away from the keyboard is as imp...
CSI Portsmouth 2014 – Maggots, drug busting and intelligence gatheringOver 100 people packed The Princess Royal Gallery at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on Saturday 8 November 2014 to hear two panel debates on crime fiction ve...
Kingsley Amis once famously said, “The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of one’s trousers to the seat of one’s chair.” In other words, a writer has to be practica...
Going, going… GoneMarianne Wheelaghan The lesser developed Republic of Kiribati is a necklace of 33 small islands and atolls, slap bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. According to the World Tourism Organization (U...
The need to vanquish the forces of evil is much in the news at the moment as Presidents and Prime Ministers grapple with an intractable situation in the Middle East and in particular the rise of Isil....
PD Viner GiveawayPrize 1: Signed paperback of The Last Winter of Dani Lancing plus an exclusive Summer of Ghosts badge Prize 2: Signed hardback of Summer of Ghosts plus an exclusive Summer of Ghosts badge We ad...
I read about new technology in the newspapers, I try to keep up. I have a phone that is so smart I have no real idea of what it can do. I have a car that talks. In the last couple of months I’ve dippe...
John MalcolmA month or two ago I managed to get a letter published in The Times. The bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo is coming up next year and the paper had been addressing itself towards various celebrati...
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