It’s a weird time to be publishing a book. But then again, it’s a weird time to be doing anything. Anyhow, that’s what’s happening today for me. My new Silas Quinn novel, The Music Box Enigma, is published. Bookshops are closed. Libraries are closed. There are no book festivals. No author talks at local events. …
I’ve been messing around with Moho animation software. Music is by my son, Luke. Check out his soundcloud page obey the monkeys from Roger Morris on Vimeo.
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. …
BLACK FRIDAY RIOTS from Roger Morris on Vimeo.