Confession time: I dread hearing my books read aloud. OK, the odd sentence or two, maybe even a whole paragraph, can sound pretty cool but sooner or later comes the repeated word, the clumsy phrase, …
Im Visier Des Morders
I’ve had some very nice foreign rights news this summer, with deals for A Dark and Twisted Tide in the Czech Republic, Dead Woman Walking and Awakening in Poland, Daisy In Chains in Croatia, Dead …
The Corpse In The Copse
"Lacey Flint, a woman with more secrets than Victoria’s flagship lingerie store, walked the long, high, carpeted corridor and paused at the door of Apartment 5b. In the last couple of years she’d swum …
The Killer Women just got a little more deadly…
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve joined Killer Women, the London-based collective of female thriller writers that, in a little over a year, has become a major force in the UK crime writing scene. …
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A tough and painful decision
Towards the end of last year I made one of the toughest decisions of my life when I chose to leave a relationship of ten years standing. For a decade I’d been nurtured and cared for, given the …
Award-winning author Sharon Bolton signs three book deal with Trapeze Books
Sam Eades, Editorial Director at Trapeze, has acquired three novels from Sunday Times bestselling author Sharon Bolton. The deal was struck by Anne-Marie Doulton at the Ampersand Agency, for World …
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It’s A Wrap!
I take my hat off to movie-makers. Earlier this week, a group of seven of us, occasionally swelling to fifteen, spent the entire day in the Chiltern Hills shooting footage for the video trailer of my …
It’s Not What You Know…
… It’s Who. How often do we say this, bitterly, when others, less talented but with better connections, sweep away the prize that we believe to be rightfully ours? Well, just lately I’ve …
Don’t ask me if I’m ready for Christmas – I might just disembowel you.
(From the archives) If there’s one enquiry guaranteed to send me into orbit at this time of year it’s: “Are you ready for Christmas?” The next time I talk to my mother on the phone I know she’s …
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The Entirely Unnecessary Research Trip
Frederick Forsyth announced last week that, being ‘too old’ to go gadding about foreign parts, he won’t be writing any more political thrillers. Clarifying, he said that whilst he could Google …