As I write this post I’m working on the fourth book of the Alice Madison series and when the issue of a subject for this piece came up I had little doubt that I wanted to talk about villains. Why? Because, more than in any other genre, villains define the crime fiction novel and it is by what villains do that the other characters come alive. Where would Clarice be […]
Read ArticleLocation as character: Seattle and the beautiful, ruthless wilderness of Washington State I am an Italian who has lived in the U.K. for 28 years and I write crime fiction novels set in Seattle, Washington State. I live in South West London but most of my days start with a quick look online at The Seattle Times before I return to Homicide Detective Alice Madison as she hunts down the […]
Read Article‘From film editing to writing crime fiction’ I have always been writing, one way or the other, but when I started writing my first novel the time spent working and watching stories actually being built in cutting rooms really came together: from the first word on the page film editing has informed and shaped the way I write. Just to give a little context: my first novel, ‘The Gift Of […]
Read ArticleBlood Sports & Other Hobbies I have a terrible confession to make, and I’d better come right out with it: I do not remember reading ‘Carrie’, I have absolutely no memory of the first time I read Stephen King’s words. But I do not remember a time when I didn’t know the book either. It is as if I inhaled it or absorbed it somehow and there it was […]
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