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Graham Bartlett talks about his second calling

I did actually want to explore something about how it was different for women both in terms of what they go through, but also what they offer

Published August 5, 2022
Categorized as Author Interviews, Contributors, Crime Scene, Featured, Graham Bartlett

Graham Bartlett, bestselling author and advisor to crime writers, talks about his police career

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All I ever wanted to do was join the police

Published July 19, 2022
Categorized as Author Interviews, Crime Scene, Featured, Graham Bartlett

Elly Griffiths talks about life under lockdown in her latest Ruth Galloway book The Locked Room

I’ve always wanted to write a locked room mystery, and here we are in a locked world

Published June 1, 2022
Categorized as Author Interviews, Crime Scene, Elly Griffiths, Featured

Professor Stuart Sillars talks about illustrated fiction between the wars

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I came to think of these magazines as very important survival mechanisms, keeping people together in communities

Published January 14, 2022
Categorized as Author Interviews, Featured, Stuart Sillars

Peter James talks about his mate Roy Grace, Super Recognisers and playing with time

Peter James
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He’s always been like a real character, almost like a mate to me

Published December 15, 2021
Categorized as Author Interviews, Crime Scene, Featured, Peter James

Elly Griffiths talks about misdirection, redemption and forensic botany …

I’m certainly attached to Ruth and Nelson in a way that means I can’t ever really just treat them as words on a page

Published October 19, 2021
Categorized as Author Interviews, Crime Scene, Elly Griffiths, Featured

Emily Winslow talks about writing crime fiction

I think of myself as a crime writer, but with the very broadest definition of crime.

Published August 31, 2021
Categorized as Author Interviews, Crime Scene, Emily Winslow, Featured

Alison Bruce talks about detective fiction

My mum read things like Agatha Christie and British, cosy crime, but then she tended to watch American crime on the TV. Dad would sit reading his book, being very disapproving.

Published July 23, 2021
Categorized as Alison Bruce, Author Interviews, Crime Scene, Featured

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