-
My Favourite Five Fictional Sleuths
I’m often asked about my favourite fictional detectives and sleuths. It comes with the territory when you write murder mystery novels. Readers want to know which writers and detectives you like and why,…
-
Who Do You Think You Are?
A Writer’s Journey Part 1 Becoming a celebrity could help me solve a couple of problems. If I was a household name, it would be easier to get a book deal and sell…
-
When you’re different (Part One)
Is being different a blessing or a curse? I guess it depends on your viewpoint and your experiences. In my case, the sense I was not the same as others began when I…
-
The blog that led to murder
Would you believe a blog could lead to murder? Me neither. Not that anyone was killed, of course. Not in real life anyway. It started when I gave up smoking. It took minutes…
-
More than a Murder Mystery
Isn’t it lovely when readers surprise you? Here I am, writing murder mysteries for crime fiction lovers, doing my best to create the most baffling and convoluted plots possible. Being a huge fan…
-
A hero for today’s murder mysteries
Have you ever read a book or watched a TV programme and wished you could write something as good? Neither had I until I saw the original Inspector Morse series. The superb characterisation,…
-
Talking to Boomers on Books
25th April 2021. My thanks to Vince Stevenson for a fascinating interview about the creation of No Accident and what goes on in the mind of a crime writer. Check out the interview…
-
An interview with Donna Morfett
6th March 2021. My thanks to Donna for the chance to talk about my work and for some terrific questions. Follow this link if you’d like to watch the interview and learn more…
-
No Sex Please We’re Crime Writers
Have you ever wondered why there’s so little sex in crime fiction? Maybe there is and I’m reading the wrong books. Maybe sex and murder are not good bedfellows. Some categories of crime…
-
An interview with author, Sheila Bugler
To help celebrate the launch of When the Dead Speak, I’m delighted to welcome fellow Eastbourne author, Sheila Bugler, to Robservations. While we met several years ago at a book festival, and a…
-
An interview with author Ross Greenwood
I’m delighted to welcome crime fiction author Ross Greenwood to my Robservations blog. Having recently read and enjoyed The Snow Killer, I offered Ross the chance to tell me a little more about…
-
An interview with author J A Schneider
I’m delighted to welcome psychological suspense author, J A Schneider to Robservations. Her latest novel, What You’ve Done, is released tomorrow, 16th April 2020. I was lucky enough to read it recently and…
-
An interview with author Paula Williams
I’m delighted to welcome crime novelist Paula Williams to Robservations. The third novel in her Much Winchmoor series, Burying Bad News, is published on 17th March 2020. Having enjoyed the first book in…
-
An interview with author, Colin Garrow
I’m delighted to welcome author, Colin Garrow, who writes the entertaining Terry Bell murder mysteries and a glorious spoof of Sherlock Holmes, The Watson Letters. He’s also written plays, books for young adults…
-
Why murder mysteries?
The simple answer is I love reading crime fiction and watching crime dramas on the TV. You can blame my love of crime fiction and murder mysteries on a bungalow in the middle…