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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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Best Served Cold?
Sharon Bolton
A reflection on revenge as the driving force of crime fiction, exploring how injustice, psychology and moral ambiguity fuel some of the genre’s most compelling stories.
Writing Moriarty: What Makes the Professor the Perfect Villain
Jack Anderson
Jack Anderson is the author of the viral sensation serial ‘Has Anyone Heard of the Left/Right game?’ which he developed into the QCode podcast and The Grief Doctor. The Return of Moriarty is the first in a new series. So what’s it like writing about the fiendishly clever criminal mastermind.
Short Story: Don’t Judge a Book
An undercover courier working inside a sectarian smuggling operation is drawn into a job that exposes how crime, violence and the past are tightly intertwined, with personal and irreversible consequences.
Placing The Setting at the Heart of a Thriller
Zoë Rankin
The author explores how the New Zealand bush inspired and shaped her thriller, drawing on real landscapes, lived experience and true stories of people who have vanished into the wilderness.
Poetic Justice, by Fiona Forsyth
A murder mystery born from Ovid's exile, shaped by myth, history and the watchful goddess Hecate.
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