Today I’m welcoming the fabulous Leigh Russell to the blog. Hailed as ‘a brilliant talent’ by Jeffery Deaver and ‘a deeply human voice’ by Peter James, Leigh writes the internationally bestselling Geraldine Steel series of psychological crime thrillers. Her first novel, Cut Short was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award for Best First Crime Novel. […]
|
|
||
|
Would you recognise one on a dark, deserted bookshelf at midnight? Generally, thrillers contain the following: The hero(ine) faces death, or destruction of their way of life or sanity, either their own or somebody else’s, sometimes by accident, sometimes because it’s their job. The ‘bad guys’ whether the mob, sinister government enforcers (see INCEPTIO 😉 […] My reading tastes are pretty wide-ranging. I like a challenge. I like a good story. I’m nosy as well as persistent, so however poor a start, I’ll plough on with most books because I want to know what happens. I’ll read almost anything: from Pascal Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon and Kafka’s The Trial to […] Not a big scene, but which framed a confrontation, added a little pzazz as well as demonstrating my heroine’s hot temper. As we cruised along the peripheral at max speed limit, setting citizens a good example, a silver Mercedes flew past us, cutting us up. We weren’t traffic cops, but I was incensed. I looked […] I went to an RNA London South East meeting yesterday with fellow newbie Rachel to hear Alison Joseph, author of the ‘Sister Agnes’ series, compare story structure in the two genres. She observed that while crime and romance in the same story may be rare, there were similarities in the framework and essential elements. Both […] |
   
Buy AURELIA from Apple! UK US  |
|
|
Copyright © 2024 Alison Morton Author - All Rights Reserved Posts Feed Log in Privacy policy Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||
