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Sunshine Is Scarier Than Fog: In Praise of the Unglamorous Crime Scene
David Cosgrove
Crime fiction, as a genre, has expensive taste in real estate. Atmosphere is free money. But I want to put in a word for the other landscape, the one nobody photographs for the book jacket: the strip mall, the office park, the boardwalk in October, the sun-bleached intersection with four gas stations and no pedestrians. The places with no dignity to lose.
The Joke Is the Knife: Why Funny Is the Hardest Way to Kill Someone
David Cosgrove
There’s a polite assumption in crime fiction that humor is garnish. The body is the meal. The detective’s one-liner is the parsley: a little color on the plate, a break in the grimness, comic relief, as if the laughter exists to let pressure out of the book. I’d like to formally object.
TWENTIETH CENTURY COP by Barry Appleton
Barry Appleton
served as a police officer with the Metropolitan Police for 20 years, working on many high-profile cases and earning multiple commendations for ability, courage and determination. In 1984, he achieved overnight success as a screenwriter, becoming the lead writer of The Bill and injecting 50 episodes with gritty realism. In 1993, he won a Writers Guild of Great Britain award for his Taggart screenplays. His other scriptwriting credits include C.A.T.S. Eyes, Circles of Deceit, London’s Burning, Mr. Palfrey of Westminster and Van der Valk. His novels include A Walking Shadow and East of Wild Goat Rocks. Barry retired to Cyprus with Pam, his wife for 49 years. They have two children and three grandchildren.
The Talk of the Party
Folosu Agbaje
Folosu Agbaje is a British- Nigerian author based in London, but Lagos is her home. Her stories are shaped by both cities. She has an MA from the LSE and is a graduate of the Faber writing academy. Her debut novel was The Parlour Life. Folosu’s narratives explore identity, culture and resilience and her new novel is The Talk of the Party. When I asked Foluso for a feature what I got was unexpected but is a truly fascinating writer’s meditation.
Master of Lies
Piers Blofeld
Piers Blofeld is a literary agent and a former publisher. He is a regular commentator on the mysteries of the book business and is a columnist for Writing Magazine. He is Norfolk born and bred with a surname destined to author a spy book. His debut is Master of Lies: How Anthony Blunt’s Treachery Shaped Our World. here he pays homage to the work of Anthony Glees and tells us Blunt may have been the most important of Russia’s Cambridge Spies.
Some Truths Should Stay Submerged
GD Wright
Gary Wright joined the Kent Police at the age of 18 and worked in a variety of uniformed roles. At the age of 29, out of the blue, he suffered two heart attacks leaving him with a lifelong limiting health condition. He retired at 30 with an internal defibrillator. Gary then bought a coffee shop in Ramsgate Harbour and spent years looking out to sea inventing stories. He is now a full-time writer. Against the Tide is his second novel.
Friends Reunited…?
Michelle Harrison
Michelle Harrison is the bestselling author of twenty books for children. Her debut novel won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Michelle was a bookseller and then an editorial assistant at OUP. She lives in Essex. Two Little Liars is her adult crime debut.
Parasocial Crime Solvers in the Age of Social Media
Samantha Moody
Samantha Moody is an Award-winning screenwriter. Sam graduated with a law degree in 2008 as the financial crash happened, (probably not her fault!). Jobless, she escaped to Japan to find herself but instead found a haunted apartment and taught English at a junior high school. When Sam returned to the UK she worked in corporate innovation but was made redundant when COVID struck. To make ends meet she turned to gig writing for indie game developers and discovered a passion for screenwriting. All inspired by her experience of starting over and reflecting complicated family relationships. She now pens female lead coming of age stories with a touch of horror and adventure. Sleuths is her debut novel; a heady mix of comedy, romance and kidnapping.
Truth Darker Than Fiction
Ilona Bannister
Ilona Bannister is the author of When I Ran Away and Little Prisons. She has lived in the UK for more than twenty years but is still a New Yorker at heart. Her characters are flawed and searching for belonging and redemption. Ilona’s writing has been described by Chris Whittaker as ‘ridiculously good... darkly thrilling and unforgettable.’ Bannister’s new novel Five asks the question: What if the next five minutes were your last?
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