Watching Question Time this week (special scheduling with Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith) I was struck, not for the first time by: What a charming, principled, honest man Jeremy Corbyn appears to …
Please don’t ask me when Lacey is coming back. I simply don’t know.
I get asked (more or less every day now) whether and when there will be a new Lacey Flint book. Some readers (the ones I prefer) beg me to write another Lacey story, telling me how much they’re …
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Most Surprising Twist!
Little Black Lies has won the Dead Good Linwood Barclay award for the most surprising twist. Voted by readers and in their second year, these popular awards were presented at the Theakston's Old …
Who Is Maggie Rose?
Please help me find my blue haired muse. Maggie Rose is the enigmatic, reclusive protagonist in my latest book, Daisy In Chains. She is a criminal barrister and true-life crime writer and such is …
Why I Cleaned For the Queen
There’s been a right royal rumpus these last few weeks about a bit of tidying up. Clean For the Queen, in case you missed it, is a UK wide plan to spruce up our towns and villages in readiness for the …
The real face of evil?
Out in my new car last weekend, I witnessed a fascinating little drama unfolding in my rear view mirror. There were road works on the main ring road around Oxford. Two lanes had to merge into one and …
Some advice to fledgling filmmakers
A few weeks ago Sacrifice, the movie version of my first book, went into post-production. The process has been long and, at times, somewhat torturous. To those about to embark on the same journey, …
Hollywood Makes Sacrifice
The Hollywood adaptation of Sacrifice, starring Radha Mitchell, Rupert Graves and David Robb, has completed its final week of filming in Ireland. Based on the 2008 debut novel by British author, …
The best of times
The weekend just gone (I’m rushing to get this posted on a Friday) was quite possibly one of the best for a very long time, and yet was so subtle in its joy, so filled with quiet, gentle pleasures, …
The rise of the gratuitous crime novel. Seriously?
With tiresome regularity do we hear that crime fiction is getting too violent (most recently at this year’s Bristol Crimefest); that complex plotting and intriguing characterization have been replaced …
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