ROSWELL – WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

The Roswell Incident has always fascinated me – not just because I’m intrigued by conspiracy theories, but also because I find it impossible to believe that we are the only inhabited planet in the entire Universe. The vast majority of scientists I’ve talked to believe the same.  Of all the documented instances of possible UFO sightings,…

CHAIR OF THE CWA

Last week I flew back from Sydney where I was doing book promotion, landed at Heathrow and then was driven straight up to Darlington – 5 hours – where I received the huge honour of being made Chair of the Crime Writers Assocation. Following in the footsteps of many great crime writers, starting with John…

DEAD MAN’S GRIP, INDEED!

Each year my cartoonist friend Peter Betts (http://www.peebycartoons.com/) kindly does a cartoon for each new Roy Grace book. I love this new one and thought it would be fun to share it with you all! Publication date of May 26th is looming every closer – just over two months to go….

I must be the only person ever to have been to Agra in India and not seen the Taj Mahal! I have just been in India, for the first time in my life, on a whirlwind book promotion tour for my publishers: Four cities in eight days, seventeen interviews, three bookstore talks and signings, the…

Turd World Britain

I was brought up, as all of my generation were, to believe that we had a three-tier class system in the UK: Upper class, Middle class and Lower or Working class. But ask any police officer today and he or she will tell you different, from grim experience. I’ve spent much of the past two…

Get Out Of Jail Free!

I used to love that square on the Monopoly board, as a kid.  It wasn’t until I became a writer of thrillers, then crime novels, and found myself spending more and more time in jails, happily so far as a day visitor rather than as an overnight guest of Her Majesty, that I started to…

New Yorked Out!

I’m just back from a hectic week in New York promoting Dead Like You which has just been published in the USA. Despite the mad rush, did managed to see some of the glorious seasonal sights, such as the ice rink in Rockefeller Plaze and the tree there, and took in what must surely be…