'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

I very much enjoyed the launch of Taking Detective Stories Seriously last Wednesday evening. The Dorothy L. Sayers Society did a very goo...

As I mentioned the other day, I had the chance at St Hilda's to catch up with Val McDermid, who is always a witty and insightful compani...

"I hereby call you to the Bar and do publish you barrister." I've often been called to the bar, but not in the legal sen...

My Forgotten Book for today is one of the last novels to appear under the famous pen-name of Patrick Quentin. Suspicious Circumstances , wri...

A Mother's Son is a two-part crime drama screened earlier this week, and I've just caught up with it. I saw a newspaper preview whi...

I’m truly thrilled to say that my early Harry Devlin books, set in Liverpool, are now enjoying a new life. They are available as ebooks,...

Can it really be true? It is now twenty years since the publication of my first novel. Quite an astonishing thought – especially for someo...

The mysterious nature of the source of inspiration and ideas for writing is a constant subject for debate – especially, perhaps, among those...

In the 1980s, I lived for eight years on the Wirral peninsula, not far from the seaside resort of New Brighton, which faces Liverpool across...

The ITV 1 drama Caught in a Trap was a crime story, although not a mystery, and I enjoyed it a lot. It starred Connie Fisher, previously kno...