All Blog Posts Tagged 'detectives' (8)

CSI Portsmouth where crime fiction meets crime fact is to be sponsored by Pan Macmillan's Bello imprint

I'm delighted that Publisher, Bello, Pan Macmillan’s digital imprint is to sponsor CSI Portsmouth 2014

CSI Portsmouth brings together bestselling crime authors, police, crime and forensic experts to debate crime fiction versus crime…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on June 28, 2014 at 3:20am — No Comments

Write up on CrimeFest 2013

CrimeFest 13 was buzzing. It was great to catch up with some of my fellow crime writers, meet lots of lovely crime fiction fans and meet up with my publisher, Severn House.

The panel session on Friday morning was well received by a lively audience and my In the Spotlight Session later the same morning where I talked about "The Perfect System for Writing a Crime Novel" was standing room only.…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on June 4, 2013 at 1:02am — No Comments

Murder hunt amid London's street gangs

Introducing Pete Kennedy, a Met detective who wishes he could spend more time with his kids and less with the violent youth of London. He's still in the pub celebrating his latest court success when he's called out to a fresh shooting - and is soon plunged into a nightmare world where boys kill and are killed for coming from the wrong postcode. Soon he has a prime suspect in his sights but the gang he is up against won’t give up without a fight – even if that means taking the battle to…

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Added by Michael Clarke on April 24, 2013 at 1:34am — No Comments

Blog Tour This Week

May 7 Seamus Interview Part 3- Melissa's Imaginarium- http://melissasimaginarium.blogspot.com May 8 Writing a Mystery Series- Nancy's Notes from Florida- http://nancyjcohen.wordpress.com May 9 How Did I Know I'd Made It?- Suspense Your Disbelief- http://www.jennymilchman.com/blog/ May 10 Choosing a Great Title- LL-Publications-…

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Added by Peg Herring on May 7, 2012 at 10:02pm — No Comments

The first ever detective fiction; really?

There were usual suspects in the beginning: Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, published in 1868, and Emile Gaboriau's first Monsieur Lecoq novel L'Affaire Lerouge, released in 1866 were generally known as the first detective fictions giving birth to this great genre. Occasionally some reserachers were bringing up some records of earlier works here and there; but in…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on February 24, 2012 at 12:10am — 5 Comments

What Do Crime Scenes Tell Us?

This is for all you super slueths out there or some insight into writing a murder mystery...

Understanding and interpreting a crime scene is much like a three-dimensional puzzle, generally with more questions than answers. However, the exigent circumstances are that the investigator needs to come up with some answers immediately and hopefully the name and whereabouts of the…

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Added by Jennifer Chase on August 11, 2011 at 8:53am — No Comments

new Made It Moment

Ken Kuhlken's detective series chronicles the transformation of California throughout the twentieth century. The sixth novel in the series, new this month, is actually something of a prequel.

Please stop by Suspense Your Disbelief and hear what he has to say about never writing 'the end'!

http://www.jennymilchman.com/blog/?p=735

My best,
Jenny

Added by Jenny Milchman on May 13, 2010 at 1:10am — No Comments

With Apologies to Nora Charles

So someone brought one of these goofy tests to my attention. It's the 1930s Marital Scale.

Basically, you take a quiz and see where you rank on the 1930s scale of desirable spousity. It takes maybe...four minutes.