Domestic Disturbance Debut Headline author Sam Hayes explains how real life can be more terrifying than fiction...
ISSUE 3
Mad, Bad or Dangerous: Anatomy of a Villain Karen Rose speaks about her new novel COUNT TO TEN, out in June 2007. 'An effective villain is one we honestly believe may not be stoppable. That means we aren’t in control. The criminals are in control. Not us. That’s scary...'
I Predict a Riot: Bateman Colin’s new novel, I PREDICT A RIOT, has to be his best yet. It’s an epic of urban calamity as James ‘Marsh’ Mallow of the Belfast CID tries to take down the city’s mobsters and politicians who are making a mockery of law and order...
The 'Jekyll and Hyde' Life of Paul Doherty By day, he is a headmaster of a Catholic comprehensive (11–18: 1700 students). By night, he write's about horrid, cunning murder in Ancient Egypt, Rome or medieval England...
Horse's Arse: Charlie Owen The inspiration for his novel? Easy, thirty years in the police service, boy and man. On the streets most of the time with some amazing company, seeing and doing things most people never come across...
Scavenger: David Morrell SCAVENGER is a high-tech hunt for a hundred-year-old time capsule. crime files asks David Morrell why he was inspired to write this story...
Never Fear - Scott Frost 'Of all the mysteries I’ve come across, none seems to have the lasting power of the question I’m asked most often when talking about my work, either privately or at a reading...'
Vena Cork on Green Eye - The Monster in all of us... 'Cambridge holds a very special place in my heart because it’s where I met the love of my life. I’d just done a very bad audition for Footlights, which he, fortunately, missed because, true to form as I subsequently discovered, he was running late...'
Take a Close Look - at the New Bestsellers from Martina Cole Martina Cole’s novels look long and hard at the consequences of violence – what happens to people who’ve been violently treated and how they cope, or don’t. Her latest book, THE TAKE – already a hardback No. 1...
James Patterson on 2006 'This year, 2006, is a very exciting one for me. I’m bringing out new hardbacks and paperbacks in each of my series, as well as two new stand-alone novels, and I hope you’ll enjoy reading them as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them...'
Who is Flint? Paul Eddy, bestselling author of the thriller series starring FBI undercover cop Grace Flint, breaks cover…
