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01 January 2001

We’re never sick of saying it: we love writers here, and we’re keen to learn from them. Jim Ford is the author of The Bug House series,…

01 January 2001

French detective Jules Maigret was one of the major crime characters of the 20th Century. Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret books – and some…

01 January 2001

Back in 1988 Jill Paton Walsh took on the task of completing the novel Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned. She completed the Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet…

01 January 2001

ITV went into the violent true-crime business with the first part of Lucan - I’m fairly confident we mentioned that last week - and now the BBC…

01 January 2001

I think I read somewhere that we tend to read digital books in shorter bursts of time than traditional print books - I may well have made that up,…

01 January 2001

Sky’s Mad Dogs, which bows out with a two-part finale starting tomorrow, has been something of a banker for the network. A kind of Prison Break…

01 January 2001

A little bird tells me you went down to Ladbrokes to to place a wager that publishers will refrain from releasing books this year. Well - face palm…

01 January 2001

What I love about writing is that an author can spend a lifetime in dogged pursuit of their own fears and fascinations. Some nail it with their…

01 January 2001

This week we reviewed Entry Island, Peter May’s new stand-alone thriller, which combines a contemporary murder-mystery with a story set during…

01 January 2001

It’s always a sweaty moment for TV producers when their hot TV show loses its leading man. Didn’t seem to bother Taggart much, though – that…

01 January 2001

This week’s book releases feature four very different detectives, who all share one thing in common - a rather unhealthy curiosity in other…

01 January 2001

The adventures of hapless FBI agent Ryan Hardy and his efforts to being to justice serial killer Joe Carroll and his bickering cult of bloodthirsty…