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Q&A with author Paul Finch @paulfinchauthor #killerfest15

Your name: Paul Finch Tell us about yourself: I’m a former police officer and journalist, who turned to writing in the early 1990s, initially script-writing; my professional credits include THE BILL and DR WHO. But I moved into novel-writing in the mid-2000s, initially with a couple of horror novels, but finally returning… Read More

Q&A with author Neil Broadfoot @NlBro #killerfest15

Your name: Neil Broadfoot Tell us about yourself: I’m a journalist and spent 15 years working in the Scottish media industry, with stints on local and national newspapers. I’ve since moved to the other side of the fence, and work on communications with a variety of public and private clients, including the… Read More

Q&A with author Jax Miller @jaxmillerauthor #killerfest15

Your name: Jax Miller Tell us about yourself: I have a love-hate relationship with writing. I usually do it in binges. Tell us about your latest book: Freedom’s Child is about Freedom Oliver, a woman in the Witness Protection Program who gets into too much trouble. She watches the children she put… Read More

The Road to Freedom #killerfest15

I started dabbling in writing in my early twenties in some counsellor’s office in the States as per his suggestion. I suspect he thought it would be an outlet for me, an alternative to having to hear me rant and rave with a million F-bombs. He was my only audience… Read More

Q&A with author Isabelle Grey @IsabelleGrey #killerfest15

Your name: Isabelle Grey Tell us about yourself: I started out as a journalist writing about the art world –perfect background for a crime writer! – and went on to be a non-fiction author, TV screenwriter and novelist. Tell us about your latest book: ‘Good Girls Don’t Die’ follows the race between… Read More

Q&A with author James Craig #killerfest15

Your name: James Craig Tell us about yourself: I’m an ex journalist living in London. Tell us about your latest book: I write a series about a London cop, Inspector John Carlyle. Sins of the Fathers is #8 in the series. It looks at 5 different father-daughter relationships and… Read More

Q&A with author J.J. Durham #killerfest15

Your name: J.J Durham Tell us about yourself: I was born in a colliery village in the NE of England and grew up in a caravan stuffed full of books, cutting my literary teeth on the great storytellers of the 60’s and 70’s – Wilbur Smith, Frank Yerby, Mary Renault, and Sergeanne… Read More

Q&A with author Chris Nickson @ChrisNickson2 #killerfest15

Your name: Chris Nickson Tell us about yourself: Born and raised in Leeds, lived in the US for 30 years, worked as a freelance writer since 1994, largely music journalism and writing quickie unauthorised biographies. Moved back to the UK in 2005, published first novel in 2010. The Richard Nottingham… Read More

Q&A with author Anya Lipska @AnyaLipska #killerfest15

Your (author) name: ANYA LIPSKA Books: WHERE THE DEVIL CAN’T GO and DEATH CAN’T TAKE A JOKE Tell us about yourself: I write detective thrillers set in the East End of London, about the adventures of Polish private eye and honourable tough guy… Read More

Q&A with author S K Tremayne @thomasknox #killerfest15

Your name: S K Tremayne Tell us about yourself: I am a travel writer and thriller writer. I have two daughters. I live in London. I love taking taxis. Tell us about your latest book: The Ice Twins. It is about a family with young twin daughters, who lose one of the daughters… Read More

Plot, plot, plot #killerfest15

There’s a great little story (probably apocryphal) about an American screenwriter, who told his family that when he died, he wanted this epitaph chiselled into his gravestone: At Last, A Plot. Why does the anecdote resonate, especially with anyone who has tried to write fiction, especially thrillers? Because, after a… Read More

The beginnings of TUESDAY FALLING.

Happy Publication Day to Tuesday Falling! Author S. Williams takes us through the underground origins of his new book. 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,… Read More