Somewhere in the world, an attractive dancer poses in a bathroom mirror and twists her phone so the photograph she takes has the right lighting, the right angle and -...

Research is the most time consuming but also the most important part of my writing process. And to my delighted horror, delving into the world of true crime is an...

As I read the posts, messages, and occasional moans of fellow writers, one question keeps surfacing: how do you get an agent to respond, let alone sign you? I have...

Reykjavík, 30th June 1980 It’s six in the morning. Iceland is bathed in beautiful summer weather. The whole country, those who voted for Védís and those who didn’t, are waking...

You think you’ve had a bad day at work? At least your boss won’t remove your kneecaps if you screw up. And you’ve never had to clean out your industrial...

Ghosts and the supernatural in fiction, crime or otherwise, have a disruptive role to play. They are wonderfully persistent, because the dead can never die, of course. Adaptable to fit...

During WWII, Ian Fleming worked as the personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence (DNI). This placed him at the heart of intelligence operations, giving him a strategic overview...

I’ve always loved telling stories. When I was seventeen, my English teacher, Mrs Bain, told me I shouldn’t go to law school but become a writer instead. Delighted, I ran...

An expedition to the mountainous wilderness of British Columbia and encounters with indigenous people in remote outposts inspired my latest novel, Totem – a very different kind of book to...