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The Martin Edwards Column: Collaborative mysteries
Posted On: December 16, 2011Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
Crime novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards asks how do more two people write a book together? Or more than two?
Read More...The Martin Edwards Column: Locked Rooms
Posted On: November 4, 2011Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
Crime novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards on the classic locked room set-up…
Read More...The Martin Edwards Column: Author Promotion
Posted On: August 16, 2011Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
Crime novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards on the challenges facing crime authors attracting readers and promoting books.
Read More...The Martin Edwards Column: A New Book
Posted On: July 25, 2011Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
Crime novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards discusses the inspiration behind his fifth Lake District Mysteries novel, The Hanging Wood, published today.
Read More...The Martin Edwards Column: The play’s the thing
Posted On: April 4, 2011Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
A crime play can be just a tense and involving as a great novel, says novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards in the latest of his exclusive columns for Bookdagger.
Read More...The Martin Edwards Column: The invention of murder
Posted On: March 14, 2011Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
Crime novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards looks at how true crime can inspire the best of fictional works in the latest of his exclusive columns for Bookdagger.
Read More...Urban Waite on writing The Terror of Living
Posted On: February 9, 2011Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Urban Waite is thirty years old. He lives and writes in Seattle. The Terror of Living is his first novel. He tells Bookdagger about the empathy he shares with his characters.
Read More...The Martin Edwards Column: Scenes of Crime
Posted On: October 29, 2010Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
Crime novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards examines the importance of place in the latest of his exclusive columns for Bookdagger.
Read More...Win a copy of P.D. James’ Talking About Detective Fiction [closed]
Posted On: October 25, 2010Posted In: Competitions
Publisher: Faber
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Courtesy of Faber, three Bookdagger readers will win a copy of P.D. James’ commentary on crime and detective fiction, those authors that have inspired here, and what the genre means to her, and to us.
Read More...The Martin Edwards Column: Short and Sweet
Posted On: August 23, 2010Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
Crime novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards discusses the short story form in the fifth of his exclusive monthly columns for Bookdagger.
Read More...The Martin Edwards Column: A Suitable Job for a Crime Writer?
Posted On: July 28, 2010Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
In the fourth of his exclusive monthly columns for Bookdagger, crime novelist and commentator Martin Edwards takes a lookd at authors’ use of real-life characters and crime writers as fictitious detectives, and wonders who of today’s authors might be featured in future mystery fiction.
Read More...Flesh and Blood: Breathing Life Into a Series Character
Posted On: July 5, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Chris Carter, author of The Crucifix Killer and the soon to be released The Executioner explains how he developed Robert Hunter into a series character.
Read More...A little too much irony
Posted On: July 3, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Craig Robertson on the differences between the harrowing facts of the Cumbria shooting and the plotted fiction of his serial killer thriller Random.
Read More...R. N. Morris on switching from thrillers to arias
Posted On: June 10, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
R. N. Morris explains how he ended up as both a writer of historical crime novels – and the librettist for a new opera…
Read More...The Martin Edwards Column: Are two heads better than one?
Posted On: April 9, 2010Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
For the first of his exclusive monthly columns for Bookdagger, crime novelist and commentator Martin Edwards explores the enduring success of crime-writing partnerships. It seems it’s not just some detectives who work better in pairs.
Read More...The Bookdagger Author Panel: Sympathy for the Devil
Posted On: March 8, 2010Posted In: Author panels
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
We asked three crime authors about how they handle writing one of the most important aspects of any crime novel: the baddy!
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