by John | Dec 18, 2020 | News
Who says GM Police have failed the public? GM Police have made news because HM Inspector of Police has issued a report listing many failings. The police in Greater Manchester have failed to record a lot of crimes and have failed to investigate others. They have failed...
by John | Dec 10, 2020 | News
Villains are essential in crime novels. Villains present a problem to crime writers, because we want to give them credibility. Readers need to relate to all the main characters in a novel, at least to some extent. We writers draw on our own character and personality,...
by John | Dec 1, 2020 | News
I am feeling down and depressed I am seldom depressed. For almost all this year I have been feeling happy enough through all the minor ups and downs, partly because I have continued to count my blessings as I said at the start of Lockdown. I have written about various...
by John | Oct 24, 2020 | News
Nostalgia is still with us Nostalgia is part of the appeal of a lot of books. I don’t mean historical novels as much as those about the recent past. People like books that remind them of their youth or of happier times. Perhaps times before the internet and...
by John | Oct 16, 2020 | News
Cold cases are often in the news Cold cases such as the White House Farm Murder get a lot of publicity when someone manages to open them up again. Sometimes something reminds us they are still live, like the Maddie McCann case. I’m glad the police so often...
