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...

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...

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...

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...

Capital Crime opened in London yesterday and the highlight of the first day was the annual Fingerprint Awards . Hosted this year by radio and TV broadcaster, Ryan Tubridy of...

A non-crime writer’s perspective Find your inner criminal I probably shouldn’t tell you this as I have signed the Official Secrets Act, but a couple of years ago I was...

Is there anything people enjoy more than watching the entitled classes fall crashing down to earth? Any glance at the news at the moment will reveal princes and politicians dragged...

What is it about secrets and the dark side behind a seemingly ‘normal’ domestic front that fascinates us? Speaking frankly, I grew up with silently-warring parents. So I assumed that...

The Case of the Two-Faced Killer is Mithran Somasundrum's second book featuring British-born, Bangkok-based Vijay Mistry, the owner of a combined translation and detective agency. In his detective endeavours, Vijay...

There’s a part in Brighton Rock where Greene’s seventeen-year-old psychopathic protagonist, Pinkie, walks in on the rest of his gang holding an impromptu parley in his room at a boarding...