Retirement is just a word…. Taking off the mask of the detective, which had been part of everyday life for many years, proved more difficult than we thought after leaving the police force. Five...
Poison Panic is perhaps best described as Victorian true crime… Discovery It was a note scribbled in the margin of a burial register that first alerted me to the Essex poison cases of the 1840s. A m...
Clare Chase: How I Wrote A Stranger’s HouseHow I wrote A Stranger’s House by Clare Chase The Initial idea I got the idea for the novel from snooping round other people’s homes! I became fascinated by the clues you can pick up about a person’s...
Sara Sheridan writes the popular Mirabelle Bevan Murder Mysteries set in 1950s London and Brighton as well as historical novels set in 1820-1845. Fascinated particularly by female history she is a cul...
Shetland author Marsali Taylor talks about writing, saliling and living in the northern islesA blog by MARSALI TAYLOR, the Shetland author of the Cass Lynch Mysteries. What book would you save in a house fire? This is a hard one, because I have so many books which are now out of print, like m...
What Next? by Peter TicklerWhat Next? by Peter Tickler It’s a strange feeling. My latest crime novel, Dead in the Water, has just been published by Joffe Books. In addition, as I sit at my laptop typing this blog, I am feeling...
Sarah Ward – When Two Is Better Than One: Dual TimelinesCrime fiction readers demand more sophisticated novels than the ones I read as a teenager. While the golden age mysteries that I devoured had complex plots full of twists and turns, the action was usu...
ON EDITING AND BEING EDITED – Natasha CooperLooking back to my years in publishing, I sometimes wonder that I survived without feeling the blade of an axe in my head I knew my authors hated being edited nearly as much as I hated being caught be...
A single event on a summer’s day, way back in 1975, changed my life for ever. I was fifteen and living in Melbourne, Australia, where my parents and I had emigrated the year before. I was kickin...
CrimeFest and the CWA Diamond DaggerThe CWA is excited to announce that the 2015 Diamond Dagger recipient Catherine Aird will be doing a series of appearances at this year’s Crime Fest. The acclaimed author, who follows in the footsteps...
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