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
Category: Author Interviews
Graham Bartlett, bestselling author and advisor to crime writers, talks about his police career
All I ever wanted to do was join the police
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
Professor Stuart Sillars talks about illustrated fiction between the wars
I came to think of these magazines as very important survival mechanisms, keeping people together in communities
Peter James talks about his mate Roy Grace, Super Recognisers and playing with time
He’s always been like a real character, almost like a mate to me
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
Emily Winslow talks about writing crime fiction
I think of myself as a crime writer, but with the very broadest definition of crime.
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.