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Author

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Feature and discussion on Scent of a Killer

Feature and discussion with Kevin Lewis on Scent of a Killer

Kirstie Long

Sept. 10

Maps Of Hell

Writing Maps Of Hell

Paul Johnston

Aug. 10

100 Thrillers Await

Thrillers 100 Must Reads

Ali Karim

Jul. 10

The CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Goes To Val McDermid

Report and photos

Ayo Onatade & Mike Stotter

Jul. 10

Neil White On Crime

The author in his books

Laura Harman

Jun. 10

Enter The Sinsister World Of S.J. Parris

S.J. Parris on writing Heresy

S.J. Parris

Mar. 10

C.J. Box Asks: How far would you go to protect someone you loved?

C.J. Box on writing Three Weeks To Say Goodbye

C.J. Box

Dec. 09

Ruth Dudley Edwards On Exploring The Twelve

Exploring The Twelve By Stuart Neville

Ruth Dudley Edwards

Oct. 09

Nick Brownlee On Burn

Nick Brownlee Talks About Writing Burn

Nick Brownlee

Aug. 09

Armand Gamache Is back

Louise Penny Tells All, The Murder Stone

Louise Penny

May. 09

When Harry Met Ripley....

An Appreciation Of H.R.F. Keating

Mike Ripley

Apr. 09

Rafe McGregor, Architect Of Murder

Rafe McGregor on the writing of The Architect Of Murder

Rafe McGregor

Mar. 09

British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia

Barry Forshaw On Putting Together British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia

Barry Forshaw

Mar. 09

LEN DEIGHTON: An Appreciation

A Celebration Of Len Deighton's 80th Birthday

Various Contributions

Feb. 09

ALAN BRADLEY: Debut Crime Novel

Alan Bradley Talks About Wrting The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie

Alan Bradley

Jan. 09

An Appreciation Of Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris and The Saint, An Appreciation by Ian Dickenson

Ian Dickenson

Jan. 09

Spotlight On Bill Kirton

Bill Kirton On Writing His Novels Including The Darkness

Bill Kirton

Jan. 09

Day Jobs of the Amateur Detective

A must for every mystery fan ,a comprehensive and lavishly illustrated A-Z guide from Russell James, featuring over four hundred Great British Detectives, and highlighting their characteristics, books, TV appearances and films.

Russell James

Jan. 09

A Look At The Latest Titles From The National Archives

A Look At The Great Train Robbery by Peter Guttridge And The Krays by James Morton

Peter Guttridge & James Morton

Dec. 09

Mark Penny Talks About Writing The Golden Pig With His Brother Jonathan

Mark Penny Talks About Writing The Golden Pig With His Brother Jonathan

Mark Penny

Dec. 09

Martin Edwards On Writing Dancing for the Hangman

Martin Edwards On Writing Dancing for the Hangman

Martin Edwards

Dec. 08

Two's Company

P J Brooke Talks About Writing Blood Wedding

Jane Brooke

Dec. 08

Martina Cole Is The Business

Ali Karim On Martina Cole's The Business

Ali Karim

Dec. 08

Michael Stanley's A Carrion Death

Michael Stanley Talks About Writing A Carrion Death

Michael Stanley

Nov. 08

Through The Past Darkly - The Blood Detective

Dan Waddell On Writing The Blood Detective

Dan Waddell

Oct. 08

ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards 2008
    - Slideshow
    - Results & Report

ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards 2008

Mike Stotter

Oct. 08

Quintin Jardine On Writing Aftershock

Quintin Jardine On Writing Aftershock

Quintin Jardine

Sept. 08

Cassandra Clark Talks About Writing Hangman Blind

Cassandra Clark Discusses Writing Hangman Blind

Cassandra Clark

Sept. 08

James Jackson On Writing Pilgrim

James Jackson Talks About Writing Pilgrim

James Jackson

Aug. 08

Cody McFadyen On Writing The Darker Side

Cody McFadyen Discusses Writing The Darker Side

Cody McFadyen

Aug. 08

Steel Witches by Patrick Lennon

Patrick Lennon Talks About Writing His Latest Tom Fletcher Book: Steel Witches

Patrick Lennon

July 08

11 Things You Never Knew About The Last Straight Face

How The Last Straight Face Came To Be Written

Bruce Kennedy Jones & Eric Allison

July 08

An Appreciation Of Mike Ripley's Angel Books

An Appreciation Of Mike Ripley's Angel Books Including Angel Trivia From Mike Ripley

Fiona Messenger

July 08

Bill Vidal Talks About The Clayton Account

Bill Vidal talks about the writing of The Clayton Account

Bill Vidal

June 08

Charles Cumming on Typoon

Charles Cumming talks to Shots on writing Typoon

Charles Cumming

June 08

Ann Cleeves On Writing White Nights

Ann Cleeves talks about the writing of White Nights

Ann Cleeves

May 08

Louise Penny On Writing The Cruellest Month

Louise Penny talks about writing The Cruellest Month

Louise Penny

May 08

An Appreciation Of Rodney Wingfield (& Jack Frost)

An Appreciation Of Rodney Wingfield (& Jack Frost)

Mike Ripley

May 08

Martin Walker On Bruno

Martin Walker On Bruno, Chief Of Police

Martin Walker

Apr. 08

Past Masters: Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace

C D Stewart

Apr. 08

What Are Flesh And Bone For Jefferson Bass?

Wiliam M. Bass and Jon Jefferson On The Body Farm and Jefferson Bass

Jefferson Bass

Mar. 08

The Two Faced Dilemma

Robert Ryan on writing Empire Of Sand

Robert Ryan

Mar. 08

Life Is Not All Pitch Black For Alex Gray

Alex Gray on writing Pitch Black

Alex Gray

Mar. 08

Still Waters Runs Deep For Judith Cutler

Judith Cutler on writing Still Waters

Judith Cutler

Mar. 08

Brian McGilloway Writes An Exclusive For Shots

Brian McGilloway on writing Gallows Lane

Brian McGilloway

Mar. 08

David Morrell Is Back
and this time it's personal.

David Morrell And John Rambo

Ali Karim

Feb. 08

Martin Baker On Writing Meltdown

Martin Baker On Writing Meltdown

Martin Baker

Feb. 08

Laura Wilson On Writing Stratton's War

Laura Wilson On Writing Stratton's War

Laura Wilson

Feb. 08

S J Bolton On Writing Sacrifice

S J Bolton On Writing Sacrifice

S J Bolton

Feb. 08

On Not Shooting From The Hip

Michael Stephen Fuchs talks about his love of guns.

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Jan. 08

Place And Characters

Writing Lying Dead by ALine Templeton

Aline Templeton

Jan. 08

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

A look at the Swedish writer Stieg Larsson and the first volume in his Millennium Trilogy, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

 

Jan. 08

The Reincarnationist, M.J. Rose

M.J. Rose on writing The Reincarnationist

M.J. Rose

Jan. 08

Are you looking for me?

Michael Robotham on writing Shatter

Michael Robotham

Jan. 08

The First Quarter Century

Michael Jecks on his 'coming of age' as a writer

Michael Jecks

Dec. 07

Sticks And Stones, The Language Of Crime Fiction

Jessica Mann speaks at the 'All Points To Art' Seminar marking the retirement of Sir John Tusa from the Barbican

 

Dec. 07

Steve Jackson on writing The Judas

Steve Jackson on writing The Judas

Steve Jackson

Nov. 07

Writing Lullaby

Claire Seeber on the writing of Lullaby

Claire Seeber

Oct. 07

An Appreciation of Colin Dexter

An Appreciation of Colin Dexter by his old contubernalis Mike Ripley on his birthday.

Colin Dexter

Oct. 07

"What Are You Doing Over There?" Writing In Exile

Why Olen Steinhauer lives in Budapest

Olen Steinhauer

Sept. 07

The Book Of Names by Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori

Karen Tintori Talks About Jointly Writing The Book Of Names With Jill Gregory

Ali Karim

Sept. 07

Was Robert Maxwell Poisoned Then Drowned? UK Crime Writer Investigates

Pauline Rowson On Writing Deadly Waters

Pauline Rowson

Sept. 07

A Brace Of Thrillers

Simon Kernick Talks About His New Books, Severed & Relentless

Simon Kernick

Sept. 07

Dissecting Dr Hannibal Lecter

Dissecting Hannibal Lecter, Essays on the Novels of Thomas Harris edited by Benjamin Szumskyj, Foreword by Daniel O'Brien

Ali Karim

Aug. 07

I Haven't Got A Sodding Clue

Stuart MacBride Talks About Writing Broken Skin

Stuart MacBride

Aug. 07

'The Blade Itself' comes to the UK

Marcus Sakey’s debut novel, the widely talked about The Blade Itself

Ali Karim

Aug. 07

Headlining in New York

Becky Fincham travels to New York to meet Headline's stars of the future

Becky Fincham

July 07

The Best "Rejection" I Ever Had

Andrew Gross Talks About Writing The Blue Zone

Andrew Gross

June 07

Paul Johnston Talks to Shots

Have you ever felt like killing someone? Paul Johnston and The Death List

Paul Johnston

June 07

Ken Bruen, Cross

An Appreciation of the work of Ken Bruen

Ali Karim

June 07

Oscar Wilde And The Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth On Writing Oscar Wilde And The Candlelight Murders

Gyles Brandreth

May 07

The Darkness Inside

What can we expect from John Rickards' new novel, The Darkness Inside

John Rickards

May 07

Jerry Sykes

What Writing Lose This Skin Means To Me

Jerry Sykes

May 07

Marshall Karp's The Rabbit Factory

The Rabbit Factory, Marshall Karp Biography, Interview and more

Marshall Karp

Apr. 07

Marcus Barr

Marcus Barr talks about why he switched to writing novels introduced by Mike Stotter

Marcus Barr

Apr. 07

Of Tattoos and Fletcher Christian

Val McDermid Talks About Writing The Grave Tattoo

Val McDermid

Mar. 07

A look behind SCOTT FROST’S Run the Risk

Ali Karim On Run the Risk

Ali Karim

Mar. 07

Porfiry And Me

Roger Morris On Writing A Gentle Axe

R. N. Morris

Mar. 07

Writing, Research and Rewriting

Kathryn Fox Talks About Writing Her Novels

Kathryn Fox

Mar. 07

A meandering appreciation over Fell and under Hill

An Appreciation Of Reginald Hill

Mike Ripley

Feb. 07

Martyn Waites

Martyn Waites Talks To Shots About Bone Machine

Martyn Waites

Feb. 07

Crime Fiction With An Icelandic Accent

Barbara Fister on Arnaldur Indridason

Barbara Fister

Feb. 07

James Bond

Colin Campbell On James Bond

Colin Campbell

Dec. 06

Lunching With Peter James

Ali Karim Talks to Peter James at the paperback launch of Looking Good Dead (Pan UK)

Ali Karim

Dec. 06

Shots Ezine looks forward to a Killer Year 2007

The Killer Year 2007 Collective of Debut Crime/Thriller Writers

Ali Karim

Dec. 06

Where Do Stories Come From?

Scott Frost Author Of Never Fear and Run The Risk

Scott Frost

Dec. 06

Mr Clarinet

Nick Stone on Mr Clarinet

Nick Stone

Dec. 06

David Harrison

David Harrison Talks To Shots

David Harrison

Nov. 06

WMD

Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Karl Vincent

Nov. 06

James Twining

James Twining Talks To Shots

James Twining

Nov. 06

John Grisham At The Races

John Grisham Gives A Talk At Cheltenham Race Course

Peter Guttridge

Oct. 06

Inverness Book Festival

Christopher Brookmyre & Anne Perry at the Inverness Book Festival

Calum MacLeod

Oct. 06

Anne Frasier

Anne Frasier Talks To Shots Ezine

Ali Karim

Oct. 06

Meg Gardiner

Meg Gardiner Q&A

Mike Stotter

Oct. 06

Shifting Skin

Chris Simms delves into the dark side

Chris Simms

July 06

The Return of Adrian Magson

Adrian Magson talks about No Sleep for the Dead and more

Ali Karim

July 06

From The Front Line

Colin Campbell talks about the reality of crime fighting

Colin Campbell

July 06

Jeffrey Abbott

Jeffrey Abbott Talks To Shots About Writing Panic

Ali Karim

July 06

Jeffrey Anderson

Shots Ezine Special Feature: Jeffrey Anderson

Ali Karim

July 06

Quercus

Shots Ezine Special Feature: New Publisher  Quercus

Mike Stotter

June 06

Shots Ezine Special Feature

Focusing on The Thriller

Ali Karim

June 06

Gayle Lynds

Read the first chapter of The Last Spymaster

Gayle Lynds

June 06

Barry Eisler

Read the first chapter of The Last Assassin

Barry Eisler

June 06

Roger Jon Ellory

Roger Jon Ellory talks to Shots Ezine about 'City of Lies'

Ali Karim

June 06

Colin Campbell

Read the first chapter of Through The Ruins Of Midnight

Colin Campbell

May 06

Stephen Leather

Q&A with Stephen Leather

 

March 06

A new crime fiction voice for Newcastle…

Martyn Waites tells us a little about his life and why the criminal world of the North East of England forms the setting for the Joe Donovan thrillers.

Martyn Waites

March 06

Harrogate Crime Writing Festival 2005

Report and photos from Harrogate Crime Writing Festival 2005

Mike Stotter

Oct. 05

The Dark World Of Alex Barclay

Alex Barclay talks about her debut crime thriller Darkhouse

Alex Barclay

Oct. 05

CWA Ellis Peters Award 2005

CWA, Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger 2005

Mike Stotter

Oct. 05

Why A Trilogy?

Michael Marshall (Smith) on writing a trilogy

Michael Marshall

Sept. 05

The Return Of Denis Milne

Simon Kernick talks about A Good Day To Die and the return of Denis Milne

Ali Karim

June 05

James Siegal's Detour

James Siegal on writing Detour

James Siegal

June 05

The Wicked World Of Adrian Magson

Adrian Magson's No Peace For The Wicked

Ali Karim

June 05

A Stranger And Afraid

Reginald Hill's The Stranger House

Barbara Loon

June 05

The Darkest Secrets Live

David Morrell Talks About Creepers

David Morrell

June 05

A Look At Disintigration

Chris Simms on what lay behind Killing the Beasts

Chris Simms

June 05

Christopher Brookmyre

Christopher Brookmyre (and Iain Banks) at the Inverness Book Festival

Calum MacLeod

June 05

Satisfying Realism

Elizabeth George's A Place Of Hiding

Barbara Loon

April 05

Cuba's Hammett

Leonardo Padura Fuentes

Dr Stephen Wilkinson

April 05

Roger Jon Ellory

Roger talks to Shots eZine about writing A Quiet Vendetta

Ali Karim

April 05

A Sense Of Time And Place

The launching of the Jan Fabel thrillers

Craig Russell

Feb 05

Diamond Geezer

An appreciation of the work of Lawrence Block

Simon Kernick

October 04

New Scene For Crime

The Coffin Trail, Why set it in the Lake District?

Martin Edwards

October 04

Where The Bodies Are Hid

Why set your crime scenes in Istanbul?

Barbara Nadel

October 04

David Beckham Washed My Car

Lee Child In Manchester

Ali Karim

June 04

The Bitter Lemon Press Is Born

The Bitter Lemon Press

 

June 04

Where Do I Get My Ideas?

Mick Herron on his debut novel Down Cemetery Road

Mick Herron

March 04

 

 

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