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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

Blog profile: @CrimeBookClub #KillerFest15

Your name – Lou Your blog’s name – Crime Book Club Blog’s URL – http://www.crimebookclub.co.uk Which types of books do you review? – I review all kinds of crime novels, thrillers, mystery, psychological, a classic ‘who done it’ and all in between. What do you like about crime fiction?… 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 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 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

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

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

Q&A with author Sheena Lambert @shewithonee #killerfest15

Your (author) name: Sheena Lambert Tell us about yourself: I’m from Dublin, Ireland.  I used to be an engineer, now I write full-time. Tell us about your latest book: The Lake is a crime mystery novel set in Ireland in 1975. It is the story of Peggy Casey, the… Read More

Writing about Britain #killerfest15

The fact that we’re Americans writing about Britain isn’t unusual. Elizabeth George and Martha Grimes and Deborah Crombie—just to name a few—have trod the ground before us.  Just as English writers like Rhys Bowen, Dick Francis, Lee Child have often chosen the States for their setting.  Getting about Britain today… Read More
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