Profiles

Lisa Appignanesi
Profile of the wide-ranging author of increasingly dark crime thrillers.

Steve Aylett
'I certainly don't think in words. I'm not sure that anyone does.'

Desmond Bagley
Back from the dead - the new century sees reissues of an old master

John Baker
Creator of Sam Turner, the gritty Northern Private Eye working out of York.

Henry Cecil
Famous for works examining the law in both a humorous and a more serious, analytical way

James Hadley Chase
Hailed as "the thriller maestro of the generation"

Ann Cleeves
A member of the prestigious Northern Murder Squad

Natasha Cooper
A novelist with many personae...

Peter May
Peter May has been winning praise for his outstanding China thrillers - his latest: The Killing Room...

Anne Perry
Internationally best-selling and enigmatic author

James Sallis
Woody Haut summarizes James Sallis' work so far...

Cath Staincliffe
Cath Staincliffe and the Manchester Underworld

Edgar Wallace
Illegitimate son of an actress, adopted by a Billingsgate fish-porter and author of over 170 titles