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…
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 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…
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…
Firstly, a very Happy New Year to you all! 2011 promises to be a very exciting year for myself and my mate, Roy Grace, with the new book, Dead Man’s Grip out in late May, and progress happening on the TV series (watch this space for updates!), and lots more exciting news as well. My…
I just received this fun email from one of my wonderful readers, Carrie Owen and thought it would be fun to share it! On the twelfth day of Christmas Roy Grace gave to Cleo, Twelve Juicy Murders,Eleven Rapist Burglars,Ten Finger Printings,Nine Briefing Meetings,Eight Special Divers,Seven Druggie Skivers,Six Car Thieves Twoking,FIVE WHITE VANS,Four Traffic Cops,Three Police…
PJ plays Santa! Thanks to you, my wonderful loyal readers, this has been the best year of my writing career. Dead Like You was No 1 on both the Sunday Times hardback and then paperback bestseller lists and was altogether 13 weeks in the Sunday Times Top 10. My novella, The Perfect Murder, which earlier…
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…
I’m pleased to let you know that the development of the Roy Grace television series is now moving forward. It is still in early stages, but our next step is to find our lead actor to play the character of Roy Grace himself. Roy is 39 when we first meet him and is now coming…