The Crime Warp

Available here POSH JIMMY BLISS The wood in which human bones are unearthed by a bunch of kids, introducing readers to DI Jimmy Bliss for the first time in Bad to the Bone , is neither dense nor particularly eerie, but it is ancient with narrow pathways spider-webbing its outer edges. This case also saw the first appearance of the Bone Woman, who at the time was working at one of Peterborough’s most visited attractions, the Flag Fen Bronze-Age site. When Bliss was first transferred from the Met to Peterborough, he was less than impressed with the city. A significant number of housing and business estates are the kind of bland and featureless late 70s design that leaves no lasting impression on the casual visitor, and seemed to offer few endearing features for the city’s inhabitants. The Thorpe Wood police station where Bliss works is a prime example of this architectural malaise, and the poor bloke has to see it every day. Over time, however, Bliss has...

Jim Napier, author of  Legacy  (Friesen Press, 2017) There were three legacies in Sally Beck’s brief life. The first was her grandmother’s bequest, which allowed Sally to attend an elite girls’ school. That was followed by the second, a life-changing event she experienced while a student there. The final legacy was due to Sally’s chance encounter, years later, with someone from her past which set in motion a chain of violence no one could have foreseen. When a young woman killed in London traffic is found to be carrying no identification, Detective Inspector Colin McDermott is assigned to figure out who she is and to track down her family so they can be notified. Soon he discovers she had not one but two identities, which concealed a very private life. When the trail leads back to McDermott’s alma mater, the detective is faced with the possibility that the young woman was murdered—and whether an old friend and mentor is involved. The decision to pick  conte...

Available here My new novel, Righteous Assassin (A Mike Stoneman Thriller) is the first in a series starring New York Police Department Homicide detective Mike Stoneman.   The first book is set in New York City (as will be most of the rest of the series, with a few road trips).   I lived in New York for 13 years and although there are many books and movies set in NYC, few of them get it right.   That’s what I love about writing these books – I have the chance to really capture New York for an audience that’s mostly not from there.   One of my favorite reviews said: “ What I particularly appreciate as a native Manhattanite is that the author gets all the New York details exactly right, not only geographically (although that is certainly a big plus), but also the energy and pace and feel of the city.”              Detective Mike Stoneman lives in an apartment on the Upper West Side, 68 th s...

Malcolm Hollingdrake Amazon Author page Harrogate is a beautiful, old spa town in the Yorkshire Dales and for me, it is the perfect setting for a number of sinister crimes, with its Edwardian architecture, wide streets and proximity to some of the most stunning scenery in the United Kingdom. The Harrogate Crime Series now comprises eight cases, each one featuring DCI Cyril Bennett and DS David Owen.                Setting a series here was pure chance. A few years ago I read Harrogate was the happiest place in the UK to live and so I thought introducing some crime would not go amiss; it was also a town I knew well having lived in Bradford for eighteen years and then Ripon for three. It is a location my family has always visited. Harrogate’s architecture is varied, beautiful and easily identifiable and so the description of specific places and settings within the pages of the books are enjoyed by many of my readers. There are so...

I have lived in Middlesbury, the fictional town that DCI Warren Jones plies his trade in, since 2011. I say lived in, because in many ways that's how I feel about the place I have spent so many hours imagining. Available here Setting my series in a fictionalised location was simple pragmatism – I can furnish Middlesbury with whatever I need to tell my story. And so now, eight books in and counting, I have a big, old rambling town with its own character and its own stories to tell. So, let me put on my red peaked cap, hoist my high-visibility umbrella, and take you on a guided tour of Middlesbury. Middlesbury is a small, seeming genteel, market town in North Hertfordshire (its name is a not-so subtle pun on the middle England that it originally epitomised). As we discover in the first book, The Last Straw , Middlesbury would appear to be worlds away from the mean streets of Coventry, where Warren Jones started his career. But in short order we have a brutal murder ...

Lis Mistry's Amazon page One of the amazing things about living in such a diverse city as Bradford is that it enriches my writing. I didn't have to think twice about setting my exising series of DI Gus McGuire books in the city and when the inspiration for my new series with DS Nikki Parekh struck, I was thrilled to be able to explore other aspects of the city. My motto for Bradford, which is often seen as the Northern underdog is that it is Warm and Rich and Fearless . So, let's take a wee stroll through the streets of Bradford with Gus McGuire. Image drawn by Nilesh Mistry Map of the city indicating areas Gus has visited in my books The Fort and Lister Mills apartments 1. The Fort (actually Lilycroft police station) is in reality an admin only building. I've taken a bit of creative licence and used as Gus' place of work. It is situated in the heart of Manningham in Bradford's inner city, opposite the wonderfully charismatic Lister...