The Gift Of Darkness is my first novel; it’s a tale of murder, obsession, friendship and revenge. It is unusual to remember exactly when and where you were when you had a specific idea because our mind is constantly churning out all sorts of considerations from the very important to the utterly useless. And yet that evening when I first thought about The Gift Of Darkness I was far […]
Read ArticleBLOOD AND BONE is the third book in the Alice Madison series and one thing I knew for sure when I started writing it was that this was going to be a serial killer story – and then I proceeded to change the rules of the game, because that’s when the fun begins. The Madison series in set in Seattle, a city in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, and the main […]
Read Article(Learning storytelling from the masters) Telling stories is a dizzying business. When an idea begins to find its legs and pulls the writer into unknown territory with a wink and a shove, it is always possible to see that energy on paper, the sheer joy that went into the construction of that story. If someone is interested in writing – let alone crime fiction writing, which lives and dies in […]
Read ArticleIt was a grey, chilly March morning and I was sitting in the reception area of the downtown precinct of the Seattle Police Department, waiting to meet the officers I would join on the day shift. I was wondering how many silly and inappropriate things I would manage to say in the eight hour stint, and still I couldn’t have been more excited. I had just spent a couple of […]
Read ArticleWhen you decide to write something new, what is the first thing you do? I start scribbling little notes on paper – always paper first – and it could be anything from a name to a situation or a question, in fact more often than not it is a ‘what if’. Do you have a set routine approaching it? It is not a routine as such but, inevitably, I seem […]
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