Are you IC7 or maybe an angler?
So you come across a police cordon on your way from the tube station. There are blue flashing lights and donotcross tape stretches over the road. Of course you don’t want to look too nosey,…
Crime
Special early Black Friday book offers
I’m off to the Brechin & Angus Book Festival next week and to honour the occasion, I’ve persuaded my publishers to give you two early Black Friday book offers. If you’re near Brechin next weekend…
Nine long years for Julian Assange
Watch now Eleven years ago, Julian Assange published the first of a series of leaks from American military intelligence, showing a US gunship killing civilians and journalists in Iraq. Nine years ago he took refuge…
Foul Play – a murder mystery in your own home
Those of you who have been hanging on my every blog will remember that two years ago I braved a country house murder mystery evening in Morecambe, run by the creators of the crime festival…
Putting on the squeeze. Review: Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen
What’s a poor author to do? You write a comic novel that satirises the orange blob in the White House and no sooner is it in print than he’s gone. Carl Hiaasen is one of…
Get best-seller Room 15 for just 99p/99c this week
Fed up with the virus? Bloodhound Books are promoting my amnesia thriller Room 15 for 99p/99c just this week. Room 15 is a psychological thriller about a police detective who has amnesia and believes he…
Why are books and movies fascinated by forgetting?
Is it me, or are novels and movies fascinated by forgetting? This century, amnesia is very in. I was invited to talk about this and my new amnesia-based psychological thriller Room 15 at Milim Leeds…
Why I love writing thrillers
My twice award-nominated noir thriller The Breaking of Liam Glass officially comes out in its second edition today. And I’m delighted to announce the winner of this week’s competition for a signed hardback souvenir edition…
Interview: Sam Blake #1 bestselling author
This week I’m talking to bestselling author Sam Blake. Originally from St. Albans in Hertfordshire, Sam has two teenagers, three cats and lives in a 200-year-old cottage at the foot of the Wicklow mountains with…
Crime wave caught on camera
Today’s story is a crime story with everything a good crime story needs: An idyllic setting, a crime wave, missing bodies, mystery, violence in the dead of night, a criminal unmasked. To begin at the…
Room 15 out today
It’s here. Publication day for Room 15 – psychological mystery thriller. And to celebrate the day Bloodhound Books have reduced the ebook price for a very short time to 99p/99c. Already the novel is rising…
Room 15 launch competition
Room 15 is almost here. Publication day arrives tomorrow – Monday July 27 2020 – and as promised I have a launch competition for you. Because sales in the first week are so important to…
Room 15 launch events
At last, it’s preorder day and I can share the cover of my new psychological mystery thriller Room 15 with the world, along with the events planned for publication day. Room 15 launch events Publication…
Q&A with Adam Hamdy, crime author, screenwriter and co-founder of Capital Crime
I’m delighted this week to host a question and answer session with the successful crime author and screenwriter Adam Hamdy. Adam is the author of the acclaimed Pendulum trilogy, an epic series of conspiracy thriller novels, nominated…
Who’s to blame for the death of Caroline Flack?
If you believe the tabloids, it’s the police or the Crime Prosecution Service (CPS). If you believe the CPS, it’s the media. And if you believe the serious newspapers, it’s us. Yes, you and me.…
Angry movies at the Baftas
We live in angry times, it seems. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when I had a load of angry movies to watch for this year’s Bafta awards. Now, I don’t mean the controversy over…
New book deal
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve signed a book deal this month for my second novel – Room 15 – with the impressively energetic Bloodhound Books. (Impressive, especially, because they like my new book –…
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The 5 Best True Crime Books of 2019
For the first post of the year, I’m delighted to welcome guest-blogger Desiree Villena, a lifelong true crime aficionado. Today she puts her passion and knowledge to use by choosing her best true crime books…