Read ‘Trolls’ by Abigail Saltmarsh
‘£1,000, cash in hand, to visit one location. It had to be incognito, starting from St John’s Cathedral.’
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Read ‘Zeppelin’ by Louise Harnby
‘I’ll take four grams,’ he says. ‘Norwich is breaking bad!’
Read ‘No Turning Back’ by Hannah Scuffham
‘Next came the glimpse of movement from the corner of her eye as she hurried along the cobbled streets of Tombland.’
‘I don’t think crime writing is about murder at all’
Val McDermid delivered the annual lecture at the 2018 Noirwich Crime Writing Festival, on the subject of “What we really talk about when we talk…
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Thrillers and literary novels
Leo Benedictus writes about breaking rules and pushing boundaries.
Norfolk Noir: From Yarmouth to Kingsmouth
There’s the Norfolk Noir of Henry Sutton and the Norfolk Noir of Harry Brett: both begin and end in Great Yarmouth, but Sutton’s stretches further, while Brett’s goes darker.
Norfolk Noir: Discovering Hellfire Gate
The first time I got a sense of the true menace of the Norfolk landscape was after I moved to the county to work for ITV News Anglia.
Death in Paradise: from page to screen
BBC One’s Death in Paradise is one of the top three most popular programmes on British Television, enjoyed on screen as well as in a…
Writing Frieda Klein
One of the surprises of writing fiction is that when you finish your book, when it’s published and sent out into the world, it’s still not really finished. As people start to read the book, the characters develop and slip out of your control.
