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Shakespeare Was A Crime Writer
My first trilogy, The Comeback Trail, was based in the music business in America. It was a simple tale of a washed-up singer who accidently kills his girlfriend and discovers that the act of killing enables him to write a hit song. To give this some context, I own a record label in the States called Gulf Coast Records, they say write about what you know. If I could just clarify, I am talking about music not murder, if that were the case this would be a confession not an article. I digress. The...
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Sherlock Holmes versus Raffles
We all know about Sherlock Holmes, but what about Raffles?
Shakespeare Was A Crime Writer
Time to confess, I’m a huge fan of Shakespeare. Born just twenty minutes away from the RSC and having been a regular there since 1973, it was perhaps inevitable, that one day, he would appear in my work.
William Cecil – A man with an eye for the winning horse
When William Cecil was born in 1520 he already had links to Court through his father, Richard – a former soldier who had earned a position as Page of King Henry VIII’s Chamber. It was a lowly position but his infant son would grow up to dominate that court for forty years.
John Dee – the early years and the making of a lifelong pursuit for recognition
John Dee was born in July 1527 into an up and coming family. The Dee family had arrived in London sometime after 1584 having followed Henry VII from Wales as he started the Tudor dynasty. Henry VII, being a wily leader, surrounded himself with intelligent men who owed him and supported him rather than those who assumed right of power through birth. So for the first time in centuries, Welshmen found themselves in demand rather than denigrated in the Royal Court. The Dee family was part of this shift in fortune.
The rise of Charlie Quinlan
I love moral conundrums. I say, “Charlie’s a cop. When she’s on duty, she does police work. When she’s off duty, she kills paedophiles.” Charlie says, “I kill paedophiles. You got a problem with that?”
Why are my SAS Red Troop thrillers different?
I remember the Provisional IRA bombing in 1984 in Brighton. How it resulted in five deaths and maimed many more. How it nearly killed the PM and her cabinet. And how, Margaret Thatcher must have ached for revenge. That got me thinking…
A detective inspector in charge of a Special Ops writes…
How life as a detective inspector in charge of a Special Ops affects my writing
Historical Heroes: Peter Tonkin on John le Carré
With John le Carré’s recent Silverview published posthumously, we thought it high time to examine the great author’s work, and in particular his anti-hero, George Smiley. Peter Tonkin, himself the author of a number of espionage novels, looks at his novels in the context of other spy writers.
Wanted: Women to Fight Crime!
Immediately after the end of World War Two, during the late 1940s, Britain police forces were recruiting, frantically.
What Lies Beneath…
As you emerge from the Northern Line at Clapham South underground station you can see, about a hundred yards away, a concrete pillbox of a building, on the common but very close to the busy A24.
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