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At one of the Bethlehem locations from my first novel The Collaborator of Bethlehem (UK title The Bethlehem Murders) with a group of Norwegian visitors who posted some brief videos. This one is in Dehaisha Refugee Camp outside the UN school where my fictional sleuth Omar Yussef teaches.

At one of the Bethlehem locations from my first novel The Collaborator of Bethlehem (UK title The Bethlehem Murders) with a group of Norwegian visitors who posted some brief videos. This one is in Dehaisha Refugee Camp and we’re talking about Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader.  

Here’s my latest crime fiction competition. Enter on my blog, FB or Twitter. The answer to these clues is the title of a crime fiction novel or thriller. To win a prize, you have to (a) give me the correct answer and (b) re-tweet or share the questions with your followers/friends. The winner each day [...]

The first Daily Detective crime fiction quiz on my blog, FB and Twitter seems to have posed questions that were a little too abstract. So I’m posting five new clues which should help you get the answer, which is the title of a crime fiction novel or thriller. To win a prize, you have to [...]

Today marks the anniversary of Mozart’s death. It was a tragedy for his family, who lost a loving, fun father and husband. A tragedy for music, which ought to have enjoyed another thirty years of productivity from this 35-year-old genius. Most of all, a tragedy — because he was murdered. For a few decades, we [...]

Johnny Cash’s narrator of “Folsom Prison Blues” tells how he “shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.” Pretty bad, huh? Yet on the live recording of the song at Folsom itself, the line brings a huge whoop from the lifers in the audience. I think I understand why. I’ve only killed fictional [...]

A great review by Kathy Stevenson in The Daily Mail of my new novel A NAME IN BLOOD: “The well-known image of Caravaggio is of a great artist but a deeply flawed man, a profligate and uncouth murderer. Matt Rees’s novel adds the light and shade that were so characteristic of his work to the [...]

I’d seen “The Robespierre Serial” on my parents shelves for years. It was published in 1975, so I assume it must’ve been up there since I was eight. I knew the cover because, even as a kid, there was something compelling about a southern European country scene viewed through the sights of a sniper. I [...]

I stopped in at Radio Wales to meet the delightful Roy Noble, who has had a show every afternoon for a couple of decades. We chatted about my new Caravaggio novel A NAME IN BLOOD, as well as MOZART’S LAST ARIA and my Palestinian crime series. Listen here — the interview starts 12 minutes into [...]

The great Italian painter Caravaggio was threatened with death by the Knights of Malta and by the family of a man he had slain in a duel and was in love with one of his models, according to a scoop in The News of the World which was never published because of the demise of [...]