Reviews

‘My favourite type of mystery, suspenseful, and where everyone is not what they appear . . . Christine is great at creating atmosphere . . . she evokes the magic of the stage, and her characters [have] a past to be uncovered before the mystery is solved.’ [Stage Fright]

- Lizzie Hayes, MYSTERY WOMEN
Cosy crime-writers?

Cosy crime-writers?

Posted on May 19, 2014 in Christopher Fowler, cosy mysteries, Helen Smith, Jill Paton Walsh, Martin Walker | 4 Comments

It was a pleasure to find myself moderating a Crimefest panel featuring some of my favourite writers. From the left it is Christopher Fowler, me, Jill Paton Walsh, Helen Smith, and Martin Walker. The subject was ‘The Contemporary Cosy: Is there Life Left in the Golden Age?’ and I asked everyone if they considered themselves […]

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Reading on the train

Posted on May 16, 2014 in Christopher Fowler, Helen Smith, Jill Paton Walsh. Crimefest, Martin Walker, Reading on the train | 2 Comments

This, for me, is one of the great pleasures in life: a long train journey and a good book is a prospect to relish. It wasn’t a very long journey from Sheffield to Bristol and it involved a tedious change at Birmingham, one of the most inconvenient and dreary stations I know. But I did […]

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