Less is More

According to Doug Johnstone…

I’ll keep this short, because that’s the point. Less is more, and all that.

Sam Eastland on his Stalin-era thriller Siberian Red

Sam Eastland, pen-name for author Paul Watkins, discusses the third in his Stalin-era Soviet thriller series, Siberian Red.

Sam Eastland discusses his fictional hero Pekkala

Sam Eastland, pen-name of the author Paul Watkins, discusses Pekkala, the hero of his Stalin-era Soviet thriller series, first introduced in Eye of the Red Tsar.

A Q&A with Chris Pavone

Chris Pavone grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from Cornell, and was an editor at book-publishing houses in New York for fifteen years. In 2008, he moved with his wife and boys to Luxembourg for two years, before they returned to New York. The Expats is his first novel.

Carrigan & Miller: The Series Begins

After two stand alone novels, as Stav Sherez writes below, conceiving a series, with a view to the long-term, throws up new challenges and requires a whole new approach to creating fiction.

Andrew Martin reads from The Somme Stations

The Jim Stringer series are detective novels set during Edwardian times that began with The Necropolis Railway in 2002. In the latest instalment Stringer leaves his home in York for the front lines of the Somme, as part of the North-Eastern Railway Battalion, aka The Railway Pals. But the men under his charge turn out to be far from pals…

Elmore Leonard on Voices of the Dead

Read the introduction to Peter Leonard’s Voices of the Dead, writtten by his father, Elmore Leonard…

Can you hear The Voices of the Dead?

The first of a two-hander, Peter Leonard’s new novel is a classic cat-and-mouse thriller. Told with swagger, brutal humour and not a little violence, it follows a good man who is forced to return to the horrors of his past. Read an extract.

Retracing the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Part Two

A young linen draper and his family are cruelly murdered at night in their home at 29 Ratcliffe Highway in Wapping. Twelve days later, a publican and members of his household are slaughtered in similar fashion, just half a mile away. Paul Bonner’s amazing maps follow the murderous events of 200 years ago this month…

The Ratcliffe Highway Murder Maps, Part One

A young linen draper and his family are cruelly murdered at night in their home at 29 Ratcliffe Highway in Wapping. Twelve days later, a publican and members of his household are slaughtered in similar fashion, just half a mile away. Paul Bonner’s amazing maps follow the murderous events of 200 years ago this month…

Retracing the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Part One

Between now and the end of December, retrace the locations of the notorious 1811 Ratcliffe Highway Murders, described in P. D. James & T. A. Critchley’s The Maul and the Pear Tree, with The Gentle Author from the Spitalfields Life blog. And, read on for details of the Ratcliffe Highway Murder Walk…

An extract from The Maul and the Pear Tree, by P.D. James and T. A. Critchley

December 1811, a young linen draper and his family were cruelly murdered at night in their home at 29 Ratcliffe Highway in Wapping. Twelve days later, a publican and members of his household were slaughtered in similar fashion, just half a mile away …

P. D. James shares her appreciation for Jane Austen

In this extended 30-minute interview the author discusses the challenge of taking, Pride and Prejudice, a beloved work of fiction, in a wholly unexpected direction.

P.D. James in conversation

P. D. James introduces and discusses Death Comes to Pemberley…

An extract from Death Comes To Pemberley, by P.D. James

In a pitch-perfect recreation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P. D. James elegantly fuses her lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen with her talent for writing detective fiction….

Undercover with Nicholas Rankin: Ian Fleming’s Commandos

In his new book, Nicholas Rankin gives us the true story of Ian Fleming’s Second World War unit – 30 Assault Unit – from which, in his rank of Commander Ian Fleming RNVR, was born the real-life inspiration for James Bond.

A Lethal Investment in an extract

Get a taster of the new Scandinavian mystery by K. O. Dahl, Lethal Investment, a murder mystery the scene set with a woman’s leg sticking out of an apartment doorway.

A Q&A with Sam Eastland

Sam Eastland, resident of the UK and the US, is the creator of Inspector Pekkala, the most famous detective in Soviet-era Russia. Pekkala struggles to balance the hard line Soviet world with his own morals and loyalty to the deceased Tsar. Read an interview with Eastland about how he grapples with Pekkala’s permanent outsider status.

A Q & A with Michael Gregorio

Michael Jacob and Daniela De Gregorio write together as Michael Gregorio. They have created a series of crime novels whose central character is the Prussian magistrate, Hanno Stiffeniis. The series includes Critique of Criminal Reason, Days of Atonement, A Visible Darkness and Unholy Awakening, out this month in paperback.

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