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The Weapons of Tuesday #killerfest15

When deciding on what weapons would suit Tuesday I had to think carefully. I wanted them to be cool, stylish and completely unavailable. The last thing I wanted was to get a phone call about some copycat murder. I pull the 1934 Russian PB 9mm silenced pistol from my thigh… Read More

Q&A with author Bonnie MacBird @macbird #killerfest15

Your name: Bonnie MacBird Tell us about yourself: Born in San Francisco at a time when women wore gloves and hats to the city, and the world was giddily optimistic with peacetime and television and space travel.  I fell in love with Sherlock Holmes at age ten and read the… Read More

Q&A with author Peter James @peterjamesuk #killerfest15

Your name: Peter James Tell us about yourself: I was born and brought up in Brighton and I now have homes in Notting Hill in London and near Brighton in Sussex. Before I became a full time novelist I worked in film – both as a producer and screenwriter. Tell… Read More

Q&A with author William Shaw @william1shaw #killerfest15

Your name: William Shaw Tell us about yourself: I write crime books based on recent history. As a younger man, I used to write deeply immersive non-fiction books, often about quite bad people. Now I sit at home with my wife and kids and make things up. Tell us about your… Read More

Q&A with author Malcolm Mackay @malcolm_mackay #killerfest15

Your name: Malcolm Mackay Tell us about yourself: 33, ginger, Scottish, writer. That’s all of me in three words and a number. Tell us about your latest book: The Night the Rich Men Burned is my fourth book, the story of two young men being lured into the criminal world by… Read More

Q&A with author Rosie Claverton @rosieclaverton #killerfest15

Your (author) name: Rosie Claverton Tell us about yourself: I am a screenwriter, novelist and junior psychiatrist living in London. Tell us about your latest book: Code Runner is the second book in Cardiff-set series The Amy Lane Mysteries. Ex-con Jason Carr is framed for murder and agoraphobic… Read More

Q&A with author JS Law @JSLawBooks #killerfest15

Your name: J.S.Law Tell us about yourself: I joined the Royal Navy in 1993 as an apprentice and went on to serve for twenty years, the majority spent in the Submarine Service. I rose through the ranks, taking a commission as an engineering officer in 2001, and serving as… Read More

Q&A with author Fergus McNeill @fergusmcneill #killerfest15

Your (author) name: Fergus McNeill Tell us about yourself: I run a studio that makes apps for mobile phones, and I’ve been designing games since I was a teenager back in the eighties… but really, I always wanted to be an author. My early games were interactive fiction… Read More

Q&A with author Lynn Shepherd @Lynn_Shepherd #killerfest15

Your name: Lynn Shepherd Tell us about yourself: I write ‘literary mysteries’ – in essence, historical crime novels with a literary angle. The first was Murder at Mansfield Park in 2010 – I’m proud to have been the first novelist to turn Jane Austen murderous! Then it was… Read More

Q&A with author Ian Sansom @ian_sansom #killerfest15

Your (author) name: Ian Sansom. Which is not only my (author) name. It’s my actual name. Tell us about yourself: Must I? Why? What would you like to know? Honestly, there’s not much to tell. Birth. School. Work. The usual. Tell us about your latest book: Oh yes, that’s… Read More

A writer’s natural habitat #killerfest15

Dickens had his chalet. Roald Dahl had his shed. Maya Angelou, hotel rooms. Edith Sitwell wrote in bed. All of my books have been written nowhere in particular, and in transit, between jobs and very late at night. My first book, The Truth About Babies, was written while traveling with… Read More
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