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InterviewsJon Jefferson Talks To Crime Time From the backwoods of the American South to the corridors of papal power... Jon Jefferson, the writer behind the bestselling "Body Farm" novels by Jefferson Bass, the latest of which has just hit bookstores and e-readers in the U.K. and U.S Unusually, Dead Man's Land didn't start off as my idea at all, unlike my other novels. I had a meeting with Maxine Hitchcock, editorial director of Simon & Schuster about joining the company, at which she said they were looking for a work of fiction featuring a 'detective in the trenches of WW1'. I said it was interesting idea – what better place to commit murder than in a place were thousands are being slaughtered each day? Mari Hannah's debut novel The Murder Wall marks the arrival of a tough, new talent on the crime scene A Willing Victim: Laura Wilson Talks To Crime Time I chose to set the fourth D.I. Stratton novel in 1956, because it was a momentous year in Western politics. In January, John Forster Dulles had made his famous 'brinkmanship' speech, in which he advocated playing a nuclear weapons-based game of 'chicken' with the Soviets. For the USA's European allies – sitting targets in any exchange of fire – this was not reassuring. Their mounting fear of nuclear holocaust intensified alarmingly when, in November, when the action of the book is set, Soviet tanks rolled into Hungary... Body Blow: Peter Cocks Talks To Crime Time Is it possible to write hard-hitting crime for young adults without pulling punches? The young adult audience has grown up with an increasingly sophisticated range of references, and is spared no blushes by TV, but I found that the teen book market did not always cater for this newly developed readership. I set out to try and write a crime novel for teens without compromising in either language or subject matter... Belinda Bauer On The Crimes We Can't Forget In her dark, obsessional stories terrible things happen Lars Kepler is the pseudonym for Swedish writers Alexandra and Alexander Ahndoril Martin O'Brien on The Dying Minutes The Dying Minutes is the seventh book in the Jacquot series, which means that after six previous outings with Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot, and nearly eight years in his company, there's not much I don't know about my lead character Have Sex With Dead Crime Writers It was with a great sense of freedom (and also responsibility) that I was able to commission myself – through Endeavour Press – to re-boot the Raffles stories, the originals having been written by E.W. Hornung. Thankfully the stories have been well received . . . New Turf: John Lawton Talks To Barry Forshaw The excellent John Lawton's equally excellent backlist is being reissued, starting with the latest Troy, with the six other novels in the series to follow at intervals over about a year. A uniform edition of sorts – and the perfect opportunity for a Crime Time chat.... Donna Leon In Conversazione With Maxim Jakubowski Donna Leon, the creator of the Commissario Brunetti series set in Venice, is a lively and entertaining lady Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories Barry and Ali talk Scandie stuff . . . over a glass of port Doug Johnstone, Author Of Hit And Run Johnstone has a PhD in nuclear physics and worked designing radar and missile guidance systems for military aircraft before retraining as a journalist and beginning to write fiction. Border Run: Simon Lewis Talks To Crime Time The old man pointing the crossbow at me wore a khaki shirt and no shoes, and his rope belt had a couple of carrots and a machete stuck into it. He was dark and small, and, I guessed, a member of the Wa minority. He chuckled. We were on a narrow trail, with bamboo groves either side so tall that they cut out most of the light. The crossbow was clearly homemade - perhaps a family heirloom - rather cumbersome, and, fortunately for me, it wasn't loaded... The bestselling Norwegian crime writer talks about violence in his books, Anders Breivik and why his baddies are Arsenal fans Brian Freeman On Spilled Blood And Lady Gaga Sometimes inspiration comes in strange places. For my seventh novel, SPILLED BLOOD, I owe an odd debt to Lady Gaga. No, she probably isn't the first person who comes to mind for crime fiction. Let me explain. My books often start with setting – places that seem ripe for the sort of remote, rural crime that I write – and that was true of SPILLED BLOOD. I'd recently done a series of library events in southwestern Minnesota, which is a bleak, barren part of the state, particularly during the winter months... Or The Bull Kills You: Jason Webster Talks To Crime Time Or the Bull Kills You is the opening novel in a series I'm writing set in Valencia, Spain - where I live. The story begins with the murder of Spain's top bullfighter. The man sent to investigate is Chief Inspector Max Cámara of the Spanish National Police - my main character. Declan Burke On Irish (and Scandinavian) Crime... From Crime Always Pays, the author of Absolute Zero Cool on national trends...Scandinavian Crime Fiction: Whither The Mavericks? Short, Sharp Interview: Howard Linskey In advance of the publication of The Damage in early April there is A Short, Sharp Interview with Howard Linskey Author of six critically acclaimed literary novels, The Golden Scales is his first crime novel Dead Scared: SJ Bolton Talks To Crime Time The more scared we become, the more vulnerable we are - to the whispered deception and the insidious erosion of courage - until we reach the point at which terror can no longer be contained, when it breaks free of its restraints and begins to override reason... How Nick Triplow Tuned Into A Writer's Life Of Crime Nick Triplow, a writer billed as the successor to Ted 'Get Carter' Lewis Making The Switch: Joan Lock Talks To Crime Time I had been writing crime/police non-fiction books for many years when I decided it was time to try a crime novel. But I wasn't sure I had sufficient imagination so I decided to base the book around a real-life event: the Regent's Park canal boat explosion of 1874. Gods Of Gotham: Lyndsay Faye Talks To Crime Time I very much identify with Faulkner saying that THE SOUND AND THE FURY began with an image of Caddy up a pear tree with muddy pants—THE GODS OF GOTHAM (an admittedly lesser work but one with a much higher body count, so I've got that going for me) began with a little girl running through the streets, covered in blood that wasn't her own... Next 25 |