I think boxes are a great ingredient for a mystery story. They invite the reader to speculate what’s inside, and if you can delay revealing that for as long as possible then you build up the suspense and intrigue. I suspect that quite a few of my previous novels have featured boxes, or trunks, or …
Before my Silas Quinn novels, I wrote four books featuring Porfiry Petrovich, the investigator from Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Nice to see them featured in this round-up of crime fiction set in St Petersburg. By an interesting coincidence, I have actually been commissioned to write a new Porfiry Petrovich short story for a forthcoming anthology. …
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Watch the trailer for my sci-fi horror novel PSYCHOTOPIA: psychotopia Halloween trailer from Roger Morris on Vimeo.
My wife said to me last night: “Why are you in such a good mood?” “I’ve finished my first draft!” Which possibly shows how tense (grumpy?) I’ve been over the 9 months I’ve been writing this book. But also shows how people who don’t write novels (A.K.A. normal people) don’t really get the depth of …
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