The Intel: Barbara Nadel

28 March 2014

We love writers here—I may have mentioned that before. With Barbara Nadel’s second Hakim and Arnold mystery, An Act Of Kindness, due to be…

TV Crime Log: Endeavour, Mammon

26 March 2014

That intense young man Endeavour is back this weekend with the first of four new stories on ITV on Sunday night. Here is the young Morse, looking…

The Intel: Tim Adler

19 March 2014

We love writers here, and we love finding out what goes on in their crimey heads. Stepping up to give us The Intel this week is author and…

TV Crime Log: Widower, De Luca

17 March 2014

It must be someone’s job at ITV to sit with a pile of newspapers cutting out true-crime stories with the potential to make into serials. The…

The Intel: David Mark

12 March 2014

We love writers here. Last week we reviewed David Mark’s terrific Aector McAvoy novel Original Skin, and in a couple of weeks—April 3rd, to be…

TV Crime Log: Shetland, Law, Americans

10 March 2014

The murder rate in the Scottish Highlands is about to go way up. After its one-off pilot did so well last year, there was never any doubt that…

Crime Thriller Book Log: Parris, Clements, Hogan & Fox

03 March 2014

This week our Crime Thriller Book Log is mostly sporting a doublet and hose, and a very fine ruff indeed. Treachery is the new historical novel by…

The Intel: Lisa Unger

28 February 2014

We love writers here, I think you may have an inkling of that by now. We certainly loved Lisa Unger’s psychological thriller In The Blood, which…

In The Blood - Lisa Unger

26 February 2014

In Lisa Unger’s powerful new psychological thriller, character and plot come together quickly to duke it out – like in one of those whirling…

TV Crime Log: Silk, Creek

24 February 2014

If any of you here like your crime dramas with wigs and gowns you may want to consider the third series of Silk, starting tonight on BBC1 at 9pm.…

Writers Events, Ahoy.

21 February 2014

Here’s a heads-up to all you writery-types. Yes you, madam - and you, sir, in the fetching Tyrolean hat. You can’t just sit there 365 days…

The Intel: Karen Long

17 February 2014

You know we love the kind of writers who really throw themselves into their work. Karen Long began her working life as a secondary school teacher…