The Intel: Sam Millar
At the fag end of last week we reviewed Black’s Creek, Sam Millar’s heady, atmospheric journey into the dark heart of adolescence. And, by god,…
Black's Creek - Sam Millar
Black’s Creek is a sweaty slice of dark Americana, part crime novel, part coming-of-age tale, from Belfast writer Sam Millar. The blurb will tell…
TV Crime Log: The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies
I was just about to write something glib about ITV’s latest adventure into True Crime, a genre which it has mined with great success—with The…
M.J. Arlidge on Six Degrees Of Assassination
So we’ve talked about books, we’ve talked about a fair few of them. And we’ve talked about a bit of telly. And movies, we like our crime…
The Intel: Luke McCallin
Luke McCallin’s debut novel The Man From Berlin offers a unique take on the World War II conflict - moving away from the Holocaust, D-Day…
Quick - Steve Worland
If the world’s most demented stuntman wrote a book while plummeting from a plane at 30,000 feet without a parachute and sucking on a crack pipe,…
The Intel: Hemmie Martin
Hemmie Martin spent has been a Community Nurse for people with learning disabilities, a Family Planning Nurse, and a Forensic Nurse working with…
Guest Post: Elly Griffiths on New Ideas
Earlier in the week we said all manner of good things about The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths. Scroll down to read that review, or if your mouse…
The Zig Zag Girl - Elly Griffiths
It’s always a tricky business for a writer to stray from a successful series. Some novelists come a bit of a cropper. But with her new novel The…
TV & Movie Crime Log: Remember, Deed
So BBC1 is going back into the spooky business with a new three-part series starting this weekend. Michael Palin makes a welcome return to acting…
The Intel: Hannah Michell
We recently reviewed Hannah Michell’s powerful debut novel The Defections, about a toxic romance in South Korea at the heart of the diplomatic…
Guest Post: Isabelle Grey On Starting A New Series
On Friday we reviewed Isabelle Grey’s first novel to feature DS Grace Fisher. Good Girls Don’t Die is the first of a projected series about…