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LATEST NEWSHarrogate Crime Festival Stars Announced The countdown is upon us - not just to the festive season - but also to the seventh Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate in July 2009 John Michael Hayes, the screenwriter for several of Alfred Hitchcock's most acclaimed films (before an acrimonious split with the director in a dispute concerning screen credit) has died in Hanover, N.H. He was 89. LATEST REVIEWSNo Time For Goodbye Linwood Barclay The story of the happy suburban couple where one partner has an unhappy, hidden past is the territory marked out by Harlen Coben, whose stories are set in suburban New Jersey. Although Linwood Barclay is a columnist with the Toronto Star, this novel is set in suburban Milford, Connecticut This Hitchcock-flavoured thriller seems quintessentially homegrown, despite the Australian backdrop |
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LATEST FEATURES
Solving The Riddle: Simon Hall A BBC TV Crime Correspondent turns crime writer in a new twist on the genre. In Simon Hall's thetvdetective series, a television crime reporter covers a series of extraordinary cases, and becomes so involved that he ends up helping the police to solve them.
The Westminster Poisoner: Susanna Gregory On Death And High Winds Many people in seventeenth-century London believed that a high wind foretold the death of a great person. So, I began with a high wind and a death, followed by another gale and another death a couple of days later... LATEST INTERVIEWS
John Harvey gives us the lowdown...
Ultimately, certain things are just necessary for the story to work. Violence and sex are part of the cycle of life and death – even giving birth is a violent act. Pain is sometimes pleasure. I have dipped in and out of a lot that is difficult in life and it affects the way I write. So, I write what comes naturally to me and try not stray too far across the 'comfort line' because ultimately I want to entertain. I aim to deliver a gripping tale, set in a faraway place about people who are frighteningly real. |
