The first one is on Sydney Jones‘ terrific blog about “mysteries with a sense of place”, Scene of the Crime. Thanks to Sydney for making me think carefully about the sense of place in my writing. I’d also like to thank Mike Jacob and Daniela de Gregorio, who are together Michael Gregorio, for putting Sydney …
It looked like suicide: both hands on the gun, the barrel in his mouth, head blown apart. Something about the face proved it was murder. Full solution tomorrow.
The locked room was empty apart from the smell of decomposition. They ripped up the boards to find a corpse clutching a strong magnet. Whether it was suicide or death by misadventure is unclear. Certainly, no note was found. However, in the weeks and days before his death, Montgomery Panton’s behaviour had been growing increasingly …
I’ve started something new on twitter. I’ll be setting up mysteries in 140 characters or less and asking people to reply with what they think the solution is. To make things more interesting, for Twistery #1 I’m giving away a signed copy of A RAZOR WRAPPED IN SILK to the person with the correct answer. …
A few weeks ago I recorded an interview with Paula Berinstein of The Writing Show about making the change to fulltime writing. Perhaps I say a little too much about the financial insecurities, about the tensions in the relationship between writer and publisher, about the anxieties of being out of contract, about the difficulties of …