'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Amongst all last week's excitement of publishing Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife , a couple of anthologies, and the new ebook ed...

I missed Perfect Strangers when it first aired on BBC back in 2001 and I'd never heard of it until I read that it is now to be found on...

Last Thursday was memorable for me, as it saw the publication of Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife . A journey that began two years a...

Harry Carmichael was one of the pen-names of Leopold Ognall (1908-79) a prolific writer of crime novels in the post-war era. He wrote pacy s...

To say that this is a landmark week in my long career as a crime writer is no exaggeration. On Thursday evening - publication day! - I'm...

The Guest is a four-part BBC TV thriller and the laws of modern television mean that Matthew Barry's script might have worked better if...

I have a vivid memory of reading Michael Gilbert's Be Shot for Sixpence (1956) for the first time. It was on a 'snow day', one ...

Last week I had the fascinating experience of signing in excess of one thousand special copies of Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife ...

I've had a hectic few days since getting back from a lovely river cruise around the wine region of Bordeaux (which is where I took this ...

The Hanging Woman , first published in 1931, is a relatively elusive John Rhode title, and I'm lucky to have tracked down and acquired t...