Writing.ie are running a really interesting series on where writers write. As a writer I’m extremely nosey, so looking at where authors create their magic is particularly fascinating. What’s even more interesting than what’s on their desk, are the locations they chose, here is a…

This is an excellent post on the Penguin Book Country Business Blog (now that’s a mouthful), that is really useful for aspiring mystery writers. Book Country is a Penguin initiative where readers and writers of genre fiction come together to read original fiction, post work…

It’s the start of a New Year and time to make writing resolutions! New starts got me thinking about opening lines – writing a great hook, catching your reader in that opening line is a real skill and one essential to thriller writers. These are…

There is something serene about Jane Casey that utterly belies the darkness of the books she writes. Brought up in Dublin, Casey is elegant and cultured, her Irish accent subtle. On meeting her you might guess that she has a degree in English from Oxford,…

Three years ago Melissa Moore was playing with her then six year old daughter in their back garden in Spokane, Washington. As the swing came to rest, her daughter asked an innocent question that set off a chain of events that was to bring Melissa…

So there’s this guy called Jack Reacher (no middle name) whose mother was French, who’s ex US Army Military Police, who travels across the USA with nothing except a toothbrush. He’s 6’5’’and weighs 220-250lbs, has dirty blonde hair, ice blue eyes. And he knows how…

‘Compulsive page turner’ is a bit of a cliche but boy, does it apply to Chevy Stevens STILL MISSING. I have to confess that when I first picked up the book, thinking Chevy was a male writer, I didn’t really feel he’d captured the female…

On a hot summer’s day in the sleepy American town of Rockville, Jessie Conway, a teacher at the local high school, notices a car driving slowly around the school grounds. Twenty minutes later Jessie is fighting for her life and Rockville is plunged into living…

There are a few masters of the crime thriller, and Lee Child is one of them. The Affair is his 16th novel, and takes us right back to where Reacher began, to six months before his first smash hit novel The Killing Floor which won…