Hidden in Plain Sight – John Bayliss
You know the situation. You can’t find your keys. You look everywhere for them: in drawers, in cupboards, in the pockets of the jacket you were wearing three days ago, in the cat basket, at the bottom...
John Bayliss – The Butler Did It
Despite the phrase ‘the butler did it’ being such a well worn cliché, there appear to be remarkably few cases of murderous butlers in the whole corpus of crime fiction—not even from the Golden Age, wh...
John Bayliss – The Mystery of the Locked Room Mystery
We’ve all read them. We’ve all (hopefully) been mystified by them, too—those crime stories where how the crime was committed is as much of a puzzle as who committed it. They’re generally called ‘Locke...
Matthew Pritchard – Why Write Crime Fiction?
Like most novelists, I write because I love to read. But when I first tried to set pen to paper, this posed me something of a problem. What was I going to write? After all, I loved to read everything:...
John Bayliss – Lights, Camera, Write!
If someone trained a camera on me whilst I was writing, I suspect that the results would not be as dull as you might expect. I don’t mean the typing part (which is dull), but the fact is that hammerin...
Behind the Scenes with an Editor – AJ Waines
Every writer I know talks about Revisions. After submitting a book to an agent or publisher (and after a nail-biting wait (Do they like it?)), the response comes back in an email report outlining sugg...
Featured Post: Fiction Feedback
We are delighted to have been sponsored by Fiction Feedback this month. Fiction Feedback provide an independent, affordable, critique service for writers – giving honest, helpful and professiona...
What’s the story – Sally Spedding
There has to be enough of one whose selling ‘blurb’ and ‘shout line’ will persuade the casual browser that they are about to enter another world real enough to make them forget their own moorings. Thi...
Catherine Aird – Diamond Dagger 2015
Earlier today the CWA made much anticipated announcement of the winner of the 2015 Diamond Dagger. We caught up with Catherine Aird to find out what winning the Diamond Dagger meant to her. How do you...
Rules for Detective Stories – David Beckler
Monsignor Ronald Knox came up with 10 rules of detective fiction as a preface to Best Detective Stories of 1928-29: 1) The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must n...
Fifty Shades of Nighttime Grey; Walking the Somerset Levels By Nina Milton
Have you ever walked the Somerset Levels at night? I have, purely for research purposes, and it was a scary experience. On the night I took my walk, charcoal clouds were scuttling across the sky. The...
Sherlock Holmes At The Raffles Hotel – John Hall
Every other Tuesday we feature a publication from leading independent publisher Endeavour Press. Sherlock Holmes At The Raffles Hotel by John Hall – Free ebook today (06.01.2015) What’s it...
The 12 Suspects of Christmas: The Solution
Previously 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. Garrett
Writer: 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...
A toxic family Christmas – Amy Bird, author of Hide and Seek explores the danger of relationships pushed to the edge
Picture 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 Joseph
Every 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 gifts
Christmas. 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...
Reading Around the Edges: Expanding Your Book Horizons – Rosie Claverton
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...
CWA Dagger in the Library announced
The 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...
Should Your Read Your Mother’s Private Letters And Diaries?
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...
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