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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

Reading Elly Griffiths, inspired by this blog

I’m now on The Chalk Pit which is the ninth and have no intention of stopping

Published December 8, 2021
Categorized as Crime Scene, Featured, Helen Jeffries

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, a unique and original voice in crime fiction today

Emily Winslow, with her multiple narrators (reminiscent of Wilkie Collins’ great detective novel of 1868, The Moonstone) has introduced an unusual and distinctive voice into the world of contemporary crime fiction.

Published September 1, 2021
Categorized as Crime Scene, Emily Winslow, Featured, Rosalind Esche

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

I know I have books that I will never open, and on a few occasions I’ve bought them just because they are beautiful to look at!

I have at times used audiobooks as company in the middle of the night, but apart from that, I have just picked the books that look like an interesting mystery.

Published June 9, 2021
Categorized as Alison Bruce, Crime Scene, Featured, Lockdown Reading

A Family of Phrenologists

When we think of seaside promenade attractions, such as fortune-telling, palm-reading and so forth, we tend to imagine stripey booths and bead curtains.

Published May 14, 2021
Categorized as Featured, Rosalind Esche, Tower Treasures

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