Good Girls Don't Die - Isabelle Grey
Rejoice—here comes another copper with a heap of troubles! Isabelle Grey’s Good Girls Don’t Die introduces us to DS Grace Fisher, a likeable…
The Intel: Sissel-Jo Gazan
Authors, like cats, have territories about which they like to prowl. Danish author Sissel-Jo Gazan has marked out her own unique space in…
TV Crime Log: Fall, Babylon, Ripper
The first series of The Fall, Allan Cubitt’s serial killer drama, received brickbats and praise in equal measure for its violent – and, some…
Movie Crime Log: November, Imitation, Drop
So once upon a time Pierce Brosnan used to play James Bond who, I’m informed, is quite a popular movie character. In fact, Brosnan got off to an…
The Intel: Nicholas Kaufmann
One of the joys of being a commissioned writer is that sometimes you get to play in someone else’s sandbox. Nicholas Kaufmann is the author of…
The Defections - Hannah Michell
The Defections, by Hannah Michell, has a terrifically compelling backdrop, the division of Korea into North and South. It’s a setting that…
Movie Crime Log: Nightcrawler, Countryman & Snatchers
Happy Halloween to you, sirs and mesdames. Let’s hope it’s not like The Purge round your way tonight. If you don’t want to sit in the dark…
The Intel: Matt Cairns
As you know, the world is our oyster where writers are concerned, and in this global marketplace, you don’t have to be in the US or the UK to…
TV Crime Log: Intruders, Missing, Awards
What to do, what to do… The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards is on tonight. The culmination of six weeks or so of Crime Thriller Club, it’s…
Crime Thriller Book Log: Horowitz, Kerr, Samson, McNab & Mosse
We haven’t done of these Book Logs for, like, yonks, so— let’s do it! *Crime Thriller Fella fist pumps and makes a bit of a fool of himself*…
The Intel: Tom Grass
We reviewed Tom Grass’s high-octane re-imagining of Twist last week. It’s a clever heist thriller full of jumping and climbing and driving set…
TV Crime log: Freak, Scorpion, S.H.I.E.L.D.
If you’re hoping for handsome vicars and gleaming spires, you’re going to be disappointed. ITV fired its pistol on the cosy stuff last week, so…