Every so often a book comes along that proves pop culture isn’t confined to Netflix, superheroes, or Kardashians. It’s normally a debut novel, usually a thriller, and naturally a lure for any Hollywood studio keen to board the gravy train. In 2015, that book even had train in the title, and keeping up with this…
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CRIMINALLY GOOD: Sophie Hannah, author
1) So, who are you & what have you written? I’m Sophie Hannah: a crime writer, a poet and (more recently, and to my huge surprise) the co-creator of a murder mystery musical. My latest published book is Did You See Melody?. It’s a contemporary crime novel set in Arizona, though it has a British heroine who has kind of run away from home…
Continue ReadingCRIMINALLY GOOD: interview with author Richard Dee
1) So, who are you & what have you written? I’m Richard Dee, I normally write Science Fiction and Steampunk adventures, they have an element of crime in them, but more as an aside to a conspiracy style adventure than as a specific “whodunit.” However, I’ve started writing what I hope will be a series…
Continue ReadingBEST OF THREE: Jane Holland, author
I cut my teeth on action heroes before the age of ten, in love with H. Rider Haggard’s African adventure stories and Zane Grey’s hauntingly atmospheric Westerns. Yet for some reason I didn’t graduate to being a thriller reader as an adult. I tried a few modern thrillers, but got bored. All those clipped military…
Continue ReadingCRIMINALLY GOOD: interview with author Gwyn GB
1) So, who are you & what have you written? My name is Gwyn GB, the GB stands for my extremely long surname – Garfield-Bennett which I inherited from my husband. I am the author of Lonely Hearts, a crime thriller, as well as a literary/women’s fiction book, Islands. I’ve always been a writer. From…
Continue ReadingCRIMINALLY GOOD: interview with author David Videcette
1) Who are you and what have you written? I’m a crime fighter turned crime writer. My background is as a Scotland Yard investigator with twenty years’ policing experience – specialising in terrorism and organised crime. I’m the author of a detective thriller series based on real events and I love to chat to readers…
Continue ReadingCRIMINALLY GOOD: interview with author Chris Roy
1) So, who are you & what have you written? I’m Chris Roy, author of Shocking Circumstances and Sharp as a Razor, crime thriller trilogies published by New Pulp Press. Near to the Knuckle published two of my works in dark fiction. They will produce a magazine later this year with Pulp Metal Magazine that will feature…
Continue ReadingBEST OF 3: Carmen Radtke, author and screenwriter
Although my literary taste – and my own writing! – involves pretty much everything that catches my fancy, historical mysteries written by modern writers are my go-to genre when I need a bit of comfort. I have selected the first books of three series who constantly delight: 1) Elizabeth Peters, The Crocodile on the Sandbank…
Continue ReadingCRIMINALLY GOOD: interview with author John A Lenahan
1) So, who are you & what have you written? Hi. I’m John Lenahan. I’m originally from Philadelphia but came over to the UK in the mid 80’s where I met a girl, married a mortgage and forgot to go home. For a day job (cause all us successful writers have day jobs) I’m a…
Continue ReadingCRIMINALLY GOOD: interview with author Holly Seddon
1) So, who are you & what have you written? I’m Holly Seddon and I’m about to publish my second suspense novel, Don’t Close Your Eyes. My first novel Try Not to Breathe was published in 2016 and – although it sets off my British anti-bragging alarm to say this – it became a bestseller….
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