The Crime Warp

I’ve chosen four novels for my January recommendations.  There’s no obvious theme to link them, except to say that I’m sure that everyone reading this post will find that at least one of these four books will absolutely delight them. The Final Minute by Simon Kernick.   Imagine that you’ve woken up from a car crash with no memory of who you are.  That’s what’s happened to Matt and even though he’s not well, his kindly sister Jane and a psychotherapist Dr Bronson are on call to help.  But as Matt struggles to make sense of a bloody and violent memory, he slowly realises that this set up doesn’t ring completely true.  As Matt tries to escape, a deadly chase begins and he stumbles upon Tina Boyd, thinking she can help, but in the process he finds out unpleasant truths about himself as well as putting himself and Tina in deadly peril.  Kernick has delivered a fast paced novel with large measures of menace, violence and a tremendous pace that seems a...

Many thanks to the delightful Elizabeth Haynes for contributing this article to Crimewarp.  Elizabeth is the brilliant author of several  best-selling psychological thrillers such as:- What stands out for me in Elizabeth's novels are the incredibly strong, unique and often quirky characters which invariably keep me hooked throughout the dark plots.  I asked Elizabeth if she would pen us a piece on how she went about developing these characters and she very graciously obliged. This is Elizabeth's article:- ----------<>---------- Author- Elizabeth Haynes I am of the opinion that characters need to evolve quite happily by themselves – you just give them a task or two to get things started, and after a week or so of writing they take over and start to do unexpected things. Once you believe that your characters are real people (it’s something you have to go with, both as a writer and, to be fair, if you’re going to read this blog post), then the writing ...