Crime
I’ve recently joined the Crime Writers Association on the back of writing screenplays for thrillers.
Not only do I get to network with some of the best crime writers of our generation, but it will also be good for my Private Investigator Karen Andersen to pick up some tips from other more experienced detectives. She is still recovering after being thrown headlong into 90,000 words of investigating the world of jihadi Brides, missing Tory Party activists and a serial killer targeting high profile feminists.
My blog: latest news, views and opinions:
What happens when you grass on someone at work?
The news that a culture of bullying pervades the NHS and stories of surgeons throwing scalpels and bawling out interns is quite alarming. Patients are also in the firing line. The sentencing of Ian Paterson, jailed for 15 years after carrying out unnecessary cancer...
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Conservative grassroots at war with their parliamentary party
“We’ve been moving to this point for 20 years. Brexit is the issue that has brought it to a head,” said John Strafford, the host of the Beaconsfield barbecue. “You end up with the parliamentary party 60 to 70 percent in favour of ‘Remain’, and the voluntary party 60...
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Author shares behind the scenes of politics in British crime thriller.
The Missing Activist by Louise Burfitt-Dons confronts a threat that exposes not just the Tories and Westminster but all of the UK "It’s easy in the era of Facebook groups and Twitter to live in a bubble.” — Louise Burfitt-Dons Reader appetite for girl crime books is...
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