There is something slightly irrational about the appeal of the amateur sleuth, and I think most readers who love the genre know it, in the same way you know that a biscuit at eleven o'clock is not str...

There is a particular kind of reader who will tell you, with some satisfaction, that they knew something was wrong from the very first page. Not who did it, not what exactly happened, but that the wor...

There is a question I get asked, now that The Forgotten Corpse is out in the world alongside the Paula Langford books: how do you write both?