Finding the perfect setting for books… For some years now, a large part of my creative life has taken place in a dismal collection of offices, spread across three floors, in a fictional borough of […]
Top Ten Crime Films that won the Oscar For Best PictureI know the Oscars seem to last forever, can be unforgivably corny, and those speeches or intros where celebs read from tele-prompters kind of make […]
DVD Review: Arthur and George Arthur and George is based on Julian Barnes’s novel of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by a real-life cause célèbre. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock […]
Vast and sparsely populated, you can isolate characters in Northern Alaska in a way that’s hard to match anywhere else on earth. Here, there’s no running to a house and pounding on the door for […]
DVD Review of Sherlock– The Abominable Bride (We have a DVD Review of Sherlock– The Abominable Bride by our film critic Christopher Chan who probes the depth of this hit tv series.) Improbably but thankfully, the BBC series Sherlock, […]
Top Ten Songs About Crime In my debut novel, The Big Rewind, a mix tape leads my hipster detective, Jett Bennett, on a quest to solve her friend KitKat’s murder. I’ve always collected pop music, from […]
Top Ten Valentine’s Day Mysteries Yeah, the human race is pretty odd, we read mysteries set during Christmas and we even have a dedicated group of fans who love to read mysteries set during Valentine’s […]
Top Ten Police ProceduralsI have always been a voracious reader of all types of fiction, but I was drawn to crime fiction long before I became a police officer. Raymond Chandler, Joseph Wambaugh, Lawrence Block, […]
Having grown up devouring books like Helter Skelter and Hollywood Babylon, I understand the power of a Hollywood crime story: the shocking twists, the legendary players, the insidious role of the entertainment industry and its power to build […]
Top Five Sources of Inspiration for M.C. Beaton I am often asked what inspired me to write and because my first book was a Regency romance, people often assume I was inspired by Jane Austen. […]
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