Philip Miller (PHILIP MILLER | Writer and Poet (philipmillerbooks.com)) is a writer and poet living in Edinburgh. He was an award-winning arts journalist for 20 years, and his published novels include The Goldenacre (2022), All The Galaxies (2017) and The Blue Horse (2015). His poetry has been published in print and online, and he received a RL Stevenson Fellowship in 2019. […]
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Val McDermid (https://www.valmcdermid.com/) has established a loyal readership for her crime fiction over the last 31 years since the publication of her first novel in 1987. In a Radio 4 broadcast of 23 September 2018 (‘A Point of View‘ – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bkpszm) she argued that crime fiction is not predominantly about murder or the grisly details
Jane Harper (http://janeharper.com.au/About-Jane) is an Australian citizen of UK birth. Her 2017 novel The Dry won the Crime Writers’ Association Awards Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year. The summary is as follows. Melbourne cop Aaron Falk has reluctantly returned to Kiewarra, the remote Australian farming community he left as a teenager 20 years
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Karin Slaughter (http://www.karinslaughter.com/) has been thrilling her readers with grisly mystery crime since 2001 with her first novel Blindsighted . She is already the author of sixteen novels, her most recent being The Kept Woman, published in 2016. Having sold more than 35 million copies of her fiction in 36 languages, you may wish to check out whether you
Stuart MacBride (http://www.stuartmacbride.com/) was born in Dumbarton but grew up in Aberdeen. He is the author of several crime novels featuring DS Logan McRae. He has been shortlisted for the ‘Theakstons’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award’ twice. MacBride won the 2007 CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded for a body of work,
Stephen Leather (http://www.stephenleather.com/) has been entertaining us for nearly 20 years with his novels of crime, imprisonment, military service, and terrorism. He’s certainly tapped into the zeitgeist because our daily news is saturated with crime, war, terrorism, death and destruction. Every night brings further gory detail about the bloodbath in The Middle East. The appetite for
90% of my friends have been dead for hundreds of years. They speak to me profoundly in ways that organisms encountered in everyday life do not. By the alchemy of the written word they reach out behind the black cloak of time. Breakfast with David Hume, lunch with Baruch Spinoza, supper with Arthur Schopenhauer, evening
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It is entirely conventional now in crime and detective fiction for the setting of the events to be as much a character as the individuals playing out the narrative. So we think of Jersey as the backdrop to the police cases of Jim Bergerac, Oxford for Inspector Morse, Edinburgh for John Rebus, Glasgow for Jim
Anthony Horowitz (http://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His output is large across a range of genres. The summary of his latest, Magpie Murders, is as follows: When editor Susan Ryeland is given the tattered manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has little idea it will change her
