Interview

Q&A with author Jason LaPier #VirtualVoyager

Welcome to #VirtualVoyager Week! Don’t worry, you haven’t stumbled onto the wrong blog. Our pals over at Voyager are hosting a week long celebration of their digital authors, and when they approached us with a thriller with ‘police… but in space’ we had to get involved. So hop aboard… Read More

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

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

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

Q&A with author C.L. Taylor

1. What inspired you to write THE LIE? I wrote THE LIE because I’ve always been fascinated by the nature of female friendships, in particular the dynamics of close knit groups of friends. Most of the time female friendships are healthy and supportive – you literally trust them… Read More

Q&A with author Jilliane Hoffman @jillianehoffman #killerfest15

Your name: Jilliane Hoffman Tell us about yourself: I was born and raised on Long Island, just outside New York City. I left NY after law school to take a position with the Miami Dade State Attorney’s Office in Miami as an assistant state attorney. I was a felony criminal prosecutor for… Read More

Q&A with authors Lars Kepler #killerfest15

Your name: Lars Kepler Tell us about yourself: We are a husband and wife team and our real names are Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril. We were writers in our own names long before Lars Kepler. So we knew by experience that writing is one of the loneliest professions in the… Read More

Q&A with author Jane Casey @janecaseyauthor #killerfest15

Your name: Jane Casey Tell us about yourself: I was born and brought up in Dublin, then read English at Oxford. I worked in publishing for nine years, specialising in children’s books. I’ve now written ten crime novels: seven for adults and three for teens. I live in London. I’m married to… Read More

Blog profile: Laura’s Little Book Blog @midnightstar3 #KillerFest15

Your name: Laura Delve Your blog’s name: Laura’s little book blog Blog’s URL: www.lauraslittlebookblog.blogspot.co.uk Which types of books do you review? Thriller, Mystery, Psychological, some detective Crime, YA, contemporary, history, some Horror, Paranormal and Fantasy What do you like about crime fiction? I like how wide the genre is,… 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