Anya Lipska
BIO: Anya Lipska writes detective thrillers featuring Janusz Kiszka, private eye to London’s Polish community, and East End police detective DC Natalie Kershaw …
Biography
BIO: Anya Lipska writes detective thrillers featuring Janusz Kiszka, private eye to London’s Polish community, and East End police detective DC Natalie Kershaw – a series which led to her being selected for Val McDermid’s New Blood Panel at the 2013 Harrogate Crime Festival. BBC Drama has just optioned the rights to her books for a possible TV series. She is a trained journalist and her day job is producing factual TV documentaries on the arts, history and science topics. Married to a Pole, Lipska lives in East London.
INTERESTS: Anya’s angles & interests include: the importance of ‘place’ in crime fiction, the immigrant – and outsider – viewpoint; European vs UK crime fiction; the importance of research; & women in crime fiction.
Articles by Anya Lipska (3)
Why Mafia Crime Fiction Never Loses Its Grip
Few criminal worlds have shaped modern fiction as decisively as the mafia. Long before television turned mob bosses into household names, novelists and reporter…
Defending Jacob Review: When a Perfect Family Begins to Crack
In a quiet, well-to-do suburb of Boston, a schoolboy is found murdered. The body of 15-year-old Ben, covered in multiple stab wounds, is discovered in a park ne…
Why Motive Matters Even More than Truth in Crime Fiction
An idea for a new book always begins, for me, with a scene. A single moment suspended in the aftermath of violence. However, there was something different about…