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Q&A with Alex Lake, author of AFTER ANNA

Meet Alex Lake, the author of AFTER ANNA… What drew you to the world of crime? I think I just like good stories, and the world of crime is full of them. It’s also a world that we know exists right next to us, but which we hope we… Read More

Author Q&A with The Hunt’s T. J. Lebbon

The Hunt is such a gripping read and the characters really come to life on the page. How did you go about researching the book? There were areas of the book I needed to research and was keen to get right. Firstly the landscape, which I… Read More

Q&A with Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, author of Bittersweet

What drew you to the world of suspense? I wrote four literary novels before I wrote Bittersweet. So although the book has been called a gothic thriller (accurately, I think, at least in hindsight) I didn’t set out to write a “suspense” novel. It’s been fun and… Read More

The opening chapters to #The3rdWoman by Jonathan Freedland

SHE CAN’T SAVE HER SISTER Journalist Madison Webb is obsessed with exposing lies and corruption. But she never thought she would be investigating her own sister’s murder. SHE CAN’T TRUST THE POLICE Madison refuses to accept the official line that Abigail’s death was an isolated crime. She uncovers evidence… Read More

Father’s Day Book Recommendations from the KillerReads Team.

   Julia: I’d give my dad Trinity Six by Charles Cumming.  A wonderful mix of historical – the Philby, Burgess and MacLean scandal; the dying days of the Cold War in Germany – and contemporary drama with an academic on the track of a possible sixth member… Read More

The beginnings of Tuesday Falling

When I was six I got into trouble for smashing a hole in the back of my cupboard with my dad’s hammer, trying to find Narnia. It wasn’t a lot of trouble, me being only six, but me being only six meant it made a big impression! For years… Read More

Q&A with Patrick Kendrick, author of Acoustic Shadows

What drew you to the world of crime? When I first began with the fire service I witnessed the victims of crime first hand. I was eight months on the job when I saw a man doused with gasoline and set on fire. As a fire-medic, I responded… Read More

Patrick Kendrick’s Top 10 favourite books

From my  youth ‘til now:   20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, by Jules Verne enriched my young reader’s mind with the notion of adventure, Sci Fi and it was probably my first exposure to an anti-hero, in Captain Nemo, while the antagonist in the story is… Read More

Inspired by the Horror of Reality: Patrick Kendrick, author of ACOUSTIC SHADOWS talks the rise of school shootings

People have asked how I come up with ideas for my novels and my pat answer is: ‘I read the newspapers.’ While this is not an original concept, with my newest work, Acoustic Shadows, one cannot miss the headline-inspired storyline of the novel. It begins with a shooting at… Read More

Q&A with TUESDAY FALLING author S. Williams

What drew you to the world of crime? Watching James Bond as a child.  Then Get Carter. Then reading Chandler. James Lee Burke. Rupert Thomson. Working in Soho and swimming in the fabulous gutteratti that butters the place. What author (besides yourself) do you think that everyone… Read More

Author Lili Anolik introduces DARK ROOMS…

When I’m nutshelling Dark Rooms, when I’m trying to make it sound maximum enticing in minimum time, I describe it like this: sex, murder, glamour and intrigue set at a New England boarding school. Because, oooee, right? Because, who wouldn’t want to read that book? Really, though, Dark Rooms is… Read More

Author of SOMEONE OUT THERE, Catherine Hunt shares her Top 10 Books

   Strangers on a Train/Patricia Highsmith. A clever and simple idea for the perfect murder. Excellent portrayal of the relationship between the two main characters; the psychopath Bruno and his alter ego, Guy, who is the target of his corruption. To Kill a Mockingbird/Harper Lee. I love this for its… Read More