Aspects of Crime - Aspects of Crime

From Courtroom to the Page

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...

William McIntyre

Writing in Dangerous Territory

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...

Matthew Hall

Time to Kill, by Thomas Waugh

I think I can say with some certainty that this new thriller by Thomas Waugh will not find a big audience among Guardian reviewers and the like. The author’s two...

Mark Ellis

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

AUTHOR INTERVIEW