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There’s nothing new about writers using real crimes for research, but Ray Hollingsworth’s involvement in the high-profile murders of Ipswich working girls became a lot more personal. Jeanette Hewitt met the author to find out more In 2006, my hometown

Sidestepping the industry circus and downplaying his own achievements, Urban Waite isn’t your typical thriller writer, and his debut, The Terror of Living, isn’t your typical crime novel, as Dan Coxon finds out. Portrait by Sean Hunter Crossing into

Real-life drug-busting narc Sonny Grosso was the inspiration for The French Connection, advised Coppola on The Godfather and cruised gay bars with Pacino. Story by Tina Bexson A dozen or so shiny, black suits and their flashy women were enjoying the

From New Model Army to award-winning novels, Joolz Denby has created an impressive body of work. Now, with poet Steve Pottinger, she launches Ignite Books Poet, author, artist, vocalist, and all-round force of nature Joolz Denby recently published her

Take a ride on the wild side with Esotouric’s tours of LA’s underbelly “We’re not your ordinary tour company,” suggests the website of Los Angeles-based Esotouric. Indeed. Rather than curb crawling around Laurel Canyon squinting at George Clooney’s

Stinson Carter, journalist and author of Southern Gothic novel False River, offers a personal introduction to the genre Tennessee Williams called it “Romanticized Melancholy”. William Faulkner called it “the problems of the human heart in conflict

Greg Lowe Original interview with Ian Rankin on the publication of A Question of Blood and the re-issue of Watchman. A Question of Blood – Ian Rankin See all books by Ian Rankin at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com Not many punk rockers will tell

Richard Pendleton American Tabloid – James Ellroy See all books by James Ellroy at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com The reader always mainlined crime fiction in front of the TV. He picked up the book. He rubbed his chin. The