What was the first crime novel I read?
With so many books read over the years, we sometimes forget where our love of the crime fiction genre started, don’t we? The first crime fiction book I recall reading was Nerve by […]
A Day in the Life of a Crime Fiction Writer
Now that the craziness of launch week is behind me, it’s time to return to the office (a.k.a. “cave”) and continue the actual writing part of my job. A lot of readers have […]
Hell to Pay: a new Detective Kay Hunter crime thriller
It’s hard to imagine that a little under a year ago, I launched the Detective Kay Hunter series with Scared to Death. I couldn’t have foreseen the effect that book and the series […]
Author interview: November 2017
Welcome to a new feature – an Author Q&A where YOU provide the questions! Every month, I’ll go through all the comments on here, my YouTube channel and emails to answer your queries. […]
How Do I Research A Detective Novel?
As with any book based upon real-life vocations, getting the police procedural side of writing a crime thriller is imperative. I think crime fiction readers are more likely to find fault with any […]
How Do I Write A Book?
It’s that time again – the Advanced Readers Copies (ARCs) of my forthcoming book are out with reviewers in the lead up to publication day later this month, and so I’m already turning […]
Blurred lines: crime writing and blending fact with fiction
One question that is often raised when I’m at crime fiction conferences or responding to interview questions is: how do you choose where the facts end and the fiction begins? When I was […]
Why is Detective Kay Hunter’s other half a vet?
When I was developing the idea for a crime thriller series led by a female detective, I decided early on that I didn’t want her to have a fractured home life – there […]
