Harrogate, 4 March 2020: The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is thrilled to announce its 2020 Special Guests at the world’s largest and most prestigious crime fiction festival. Crime writing royalty Martina Cole, Mark Billingham, Lisa Gardner, Kathy Reichs, Elly Griffiths, Mick Herron and Michael Connelly will be appearing as part of the killer line-up curated… Continue reading
‘Verbs and Nouns’. You are what you do, Stephen Fry says. We are verbs or nouns, a doing thing or a thing. We are all doers, we all do something. Me, I write, when I am not doing other things, like mopping floors, looking after guests. You build, look after… Continue reading
5 Reasons you’ll hand over control to A.I. Reason 3. Decision-making is a huge mental drain We live in a world of choice, choice and more choice. It sounds like a good thing, but we haven’t really evolved to cope with the 2,500-10,000 decisions that now come our way daily…. Continue reading
YES we are all desperate to get this one but you’ll have to make do with just the cover for now…and the blurb of course. Just you wait you’ll be DYING to read it… You CAN Pre-order here! HERE IS THE COVER 🖤🖤🖤 Out in May (ebook) and July (paperback)… Continue reading
Yes it’s that time of year again – slightly earlier than usual as I’m taking some time off in December- here are my personal top 10 of the year. A top 11 to be precise given that my no 1 spot this year is shared by two very different but… Continue reading
I am extremely happy to be sharing the brilliantly apt cover for Rod’ new thriller coming in May 2020 – this novel moves away from his amazing American historical noir and into modern day London but has the same intensely involving writing and hugely addictive plotting…blurb and purchase link follow…. Continue reading
So I’m doing a LOT of 2020 reading at the moment and there are some truly incredible titles coming next year…I will be doing one of these every so often so watch this space and I’ll keep you up to date with what, in my opinion, are the best of… Continue reading
Very happy to welcome Dale Brendan Hyde to Liz Loves Books today to talk about The Ink Run… When and why did you decide you wanted to write a novel. I never felt in the early days of my writing that I was on the path to constructing a novel…. Continue reading
Tell us a little about your current novel, what readers can expect from it. Critical Incidents is a slight departure for me. My first four novels, most recently Before We Met and Keep You Close, were psychological suspense but Critical Incidents is literary crime for readers who like Tana French… Continue reading
A child was stolen twenty years agoLittle Sammy Went vanishes from her home in Manson, Kentucky – an event that devastates her family and tears apart the town’s deeply religious community. And somehow that missing girl is youKim Leamy, an Australian photographer, is approached by a stranger who turns her… Continue reading
