Cold As Ice - Lee Weeks

11 December 2013

Cold As Ice by Lee Weeks is the second novel by Lee Weeks about DC Ebony Willis and DI Dan Carter and the North London MIT. You had better wrap up…

TV Crime Log: Lucan

09 December 2013

Murder and aristocracy is an intoxicating combination. For nearly 40 years, the media has speculated about the events that led to the death of Lord…

Movie Crime Log: Homefront, Oldboy, Getaway

06 December 2013

Rejoice, film fans, there’s a new Jason Statham movie out today! Homefront apparently started life as a Rambo script that Stallone dug out of his…

TV Crime Log: Legacy

27 November 2013

There’s some good telly ramping up for Christmas. Legacy is a thriller that takes us back to the 1970s. Three-day weeks, petrol rationing and…

Monday Crime News: Violent Art, Arjouni, Broadchurch

25 November 2013

Three crimey-wimey events (sorry, guess what I watched this weekend) for you this week. They all take place in Lundun Tarn, so hopefully you’re…

Crime Thriller Book Log: Hurley, Hannah, Connelly & Khoury

20 November 2013

The weekly onslaught of new books keeps coming, you lucky things. There are some more out tomorrow. I don’t really know why novels are most often…

The Intel: Ed Chatterton

13 November 2013

As you know, we love writers here, and we’re keen to learn from them. Earlier in the week we reviewed Ed Chatterton’s excellent new novel Down…

Down Among The Dead Men - Ed Chatterton

11 November 2013

So I’m guessing that, if he keeps this up, Ed Chatterton is going to be playing among the top-sellers of the genre. His second novel to feature…

The Craftsman - The Future of Storytelling?

06 November 2013

The way we buy and consume novels may have changed over the last decade – these days you’re just as likely to swipe a screen as turn a page -…

CSI Portsmouth

30 October 2013

These days, if you want to write a crime novel you’ve got to know your onions. Authenticity is important to many authors and publishers.…

TV Crime Log: Ripper, Escape, Dracula

28 October 2013

I’ll keep this quick because I’m busy picking my garden furniture out of the trees. Another week brings another stampede of new crime thriller…

TV & Radio Crime Log: Corrupted, Poirot, Boardwalk

21 October 2013

We like period drama - people in hats and stiff collars committing and solving crime - and there’s plenty of it about this week. Just for a…