'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

I'm back home after a wonderful ten days which began with a Murder Squad event at Halifax Central Library and then the most enjoyable of...

I first read Michael Gilbert's Sky High (1955) when I was a teenager, so perhaps it's understandable that on returning to it recent...

Edgar Allan Poe is the gift who gives on giving as far as writers and film-makers are concerned. It's not just that his stories and poem...

It seems hard to believe, but Stark House Press (like Murder Squad!) recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Greg Shepard and his associat...

I have mixed feelings about Mary Fitt's crime fiction. Some of her books, such as Mizmaze , strike me as hopeless, but she was capable o...

The CWA Short Story Dagger holds a special place in my heart for a number of reasons. It was the very first major award that I won for my cr...

I'm back home after a short but hugely enjoyable cruise when I was a speaker - or 'conversationalist', to use the company's ...

Desmond Lowden was a highly successful crime writer. He published a mere eight novels between 1969 and 1990, but several of them were made i...

The Assessment is a new film, the first to be directed by Fleur Fortune (a name that deserves to be in a Rachel Savernake novel...) and its...

The six members of Murder Squad celebrated our 25th anniversary in style in the elegant surroundings of Stockport Guildhall last Wednesday. ...