GOOD QUESTION. August 1
National Crime Week, organised between libraries and the Crime Writers' Association, appears to have been barn-storming success. There are plans to build on this next year. I did five events - at Attleborough, Long Stratton, Hunstanton and King's Lynn, and with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
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IN ELY - from the makers of IN BRUGES. April 22
We watch DVD's at home using one of the national watch-and-post systems, so this week we settled down one evening to view In Bruges, the 2008 black comedy, written and directed by Martin McDonagh
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LUMINOUS OWL: POSTED MARCH 28
I wanted to share a discovery with readers who are interested in landscape - in this case, the Fens, and East Anglia generally. Some time ago i was doing research online, trying to put together a talk entitled DEAD FLAT - crime writing in East Anglia
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WHY KING'S LYNN: MARCH 19
In preparing for a short talk at Waterstone's in King's Lynn I asked myself a simple question: why did I choose the town for the setting for the Shaw and Valentine books ? It was a big decision, so you'd think I'd have the answer to hand, but it proved oddly elusive
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WHERE MURDER LIVES: posted March 6
Over the last month I've been researching the string of infamous murders committed between Crippen in 1910 and Christie in 1953 in preparation for the talk I gave at the launch of the new book - Death Watch - in Ely on March 4
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WALLANDER and the Fens: January 16
The BBC have clearly scored a palpable hit with their ambitious adaption of Henning Mankell's Wallander books. This second series, which finished, last night, is - if anything - better than the first
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2010 BLOG
I have just been listening to P.D.James, the esteemed crime writer, on the Today programme. She took some time to lament the modern inclination for the genre to be a blood-splattered forensic-fest, replete with serial killers and skin-crawling flesh
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WINTER WRITING: November 14
I'm out in the hut these days working on the fourth novel in the Shaw & Valentine series - provisionally entitled Death Mark. So far the series has been nicely balanced between the seasons. Death Wore White was set in a bleak snowy winter on the North Norfolk coast
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September 10. Midsomer Murder
It's been a great summer for ideas. Abandoning the shed on the allotment (only briefly) we found ourselves in another hut up on the north Norfolk coast - see picture. It made me realise that a long line o fbeach huts are a perfect setting for murder
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July 6
I've sat through many hundreds of coroner's court hearings but never one called out of a courtroom - a power coroner's still have
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June 18
Just back from an excellent event at Winchester's Discovery Centre. Andrew Taylor and Peter Lovesey were in great form. I thought the best question of the evening came from the audience of about 80 who had braved the soft Hampshire rain
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June 4
I have spent the morning in the writing hut struggling with the character of DS George Valentine
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March 25
A forced retreat from the wiritng hut this morning due to battering storm from the SW. At one point the shed was hit by flying bits of plastic and wood from neighbours plots. And the pigeons, which tend to stamp around over my head, were being blown clean off as soon as they made landfall
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BLOG date March 21
Just returned from the hut on the allotment where I write in the mornings. Spring is busting out, and there were plenty of people about trudging behind rotovators or digging up winter leeks. I came back becuase I needed to do some on-line research here in my office at home
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