by Killer Women | Feb 15, 2017 | News
A visit to the hairdressers on January 4th proves I’m nothing if not a cliché. ‘What are we doing?’ Phil the hairdresser asks me. ‘Something new,’ I tell him. ‘I’m bored of looking like this.’ Phil strokes his beard and studies me for signs of post Christmas delirium,...
by Killer Women | Dec 1, 2016 | Killer Writing Advice
The distinction between past and present is a rather blurry thing. My Sister Agnes novels are set firmly in the present. She is a contemporary, detective nun, working in a hostel for the homeless in South London. But when I started writing the series in the...
by Killer Women | Sep 1, 2016 | Killer Writing Advice
Ten perfect pop songs with plots, shocking twists and body counts It is a truth universally acknowledged (by me, because I write them) that the psychological thriller is the greatest sub-genre of crime fiction, itself the supreme genre of all time. Psychological...
by Killer Women | Jan 24, 2016 | Killer Writing Advice
Call it the Hilary Mantel effect or the CJ Sansom effect, but so much fiction is set in the past these days. But how do you find a balance between re-creating the past and telling the story? Are you recreating a world or inventing a world? And should you do it at all?...
by Killer Women | Jan 4, 2016 | Killer Writing Advice
The idea came, like many good things, from a trip to the pub. My sister and I had taken a slow autumn walk by the Thames. We ambled east through Southwark and Wapping, arriving at the Prospect of Whitby for a late lunch. A sign above the bar explained that the...
