This is the category to list all blogs except the Shelf Indulgence blog posts.
Sorry about the radio silence over the last few months: there’s been something brewing which I couldn’t talk about (and didn’t dare, in case I woke one morning and found it was all a wonderful dream). I submitted my latest book in mid-February, with the… Read more
By Helen Pepper When we talk about forensic evidence, most people think all we need to do is find a DNA profile and that’s it – job done. It’s usually rather more complicated than that. What we’re really looking for is something that will link… Read more
Time to stand and stare . . . By Helen Pepper When I was a brand new CSI, desperate to start catching criminals with my enhanced forensic skills, my sergeant said to me that the first thing I should do at a crime scene was… Read more
By Margaret Murphy/A.D. Garrett Why do novelists write short stories? It certainly isn’t for the money – they really don’t pay much – and if, like me, you find them a challenge, they can take a disproportionate amount of work. And yet Murder Squad has… Read more
by A.D. Garrett Road trip – had to be a winner, right? As a kid growing up in the narrow streets of northern England, I knew America as surely as I knew the grey concrete of my own back yard. For years, I had a… Read more
BELIEVE NO ONE opens with an Oklahoma farmer dragging a cottonwood tree out of one of his ponds. What Oklahomans call a ‘pond’, we Brits would call a sizeable lake, and this theme of familiarity and difference – two nations divided by a common language… Read more
