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Col’s Column

A non-crime writer’s perspective Col-umn 3. Over my dead body I know what you’re thinking. “Who is Col Newton?” and “Why is he writing a column for Aspects of Crime?”...

Col Newton

Everything Else Is Weather by David Cosgrove

I write for two people. That is the entire business plan, and I am aware this would get me escorted out of most business schools by campus security. The first...

David Cosgrove

Ignore the rules for first dates at your peril by Charlotte Vassell

Romance is precarious at the best of the times. Will they look like their picture or will it be from ten years ago? Are they interesting or did they use...

Charlotte Vassell

Why I Turn True Crime into Fiction by Noelle W. Ihli

When readers ask me why I write thrillers based on true events, the short answer is that true crime takes up around 90 percent of the hard drive in my...

Noelle Ihli

Darkness in the Landscape: How Scandi-crime changed the Way I Saw the Highlands by G.R. Halliday

When people ask where the idea for From the Shadows came from , I usually tell them about a walk in the north-west Highlands with my partner, Sarah. We were...

GR Halliday

David Cosgrove Interviewed

David Cosgrove is the author of The Disaster Files featuring hapless private eye Marv Slocum. The series kicked off with The Meridian Job and its out of the frying pan...

David Cosgrove, Paul Burke

Placing teenagers at the heart of a thriller – Rebecca Hardy

Three fictional teenage friends provide the hook and the heart of my debut novel, The Summer We Lie, a mystery thriller set between rural East Sussex in the heatwave summer...

Rebecca Hardy

Summer Reads – Soaring Temperatures, Sizzling Stories

Summer Reads – Crime Fiction for the Get Away

With another super heat burst on the way we all need to think about ways of chilling out and relaxing, there’s...

Editor

The Venetian Redemption by Philip Gwynne Jones

Nothing will ever prepare you for the late-night phone call from a familiar number. My mother had been very frail for many years. I would go back to visit her...

Philip Gwynne Jones

Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold

Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen. Hallie Rubenhold 's latest examination of historical crime tells the story of one of the most notorious murder trials...

Hallie Rubenhold

AUTHOR INTERVIEW