The Theakstons Crime Writing Festival is the largest event in Europe dedicated to the celebration of crime fiction. The Theakstons Festival crew had been tweeting us all up into a fervour for the past few months…and now finally it was happening and I was going. As I stepped from the train onto the station platform …
The Theakstons Harrogate Crime Writing Festival is the largest event in Europe dedicated to the celebration of crime fiction. With over 70 best-selling UK and international crime writers and a programme of 20 plus events it’s no surprise that over the last seven years it’s become the place to be for lovers of crime fiction. …
Yesterday I decided to make poppy seed cake. The cake is a favourite of Clare Hills the protagonist of The Hidden Bones. Clare normally eats her cake in a tea shop as her talents don’t extend to the kitchen. The recipe has American measures in brackets to encourage her friend and colleague Californian human bone …
The Devil’s Feather by Minette Walters Like virtually every other right-minded lover of crime fiction I’m a fan of Minette Walters, but until recently The Devil’s Feather had escaped my attention. In the Devil’s Feather Walters goes global in a tale that transports us from war ravaged Sierra Leone via post-Saddam Iraq to deepest Dorset. …
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson One Good Turn is Whitbread prize winning author Kate Atkinson’s second venture into crime fiction. This time thanks to his thespian girlfriend Julia’s involvement in a decidedly mediocre production, police inspector turned private detective, Jackson Brodie finds himself in Edinburgh during the Festival. There he witnesses cosy mystery writer …