Elmore Leonard, who died yesterday at 87, has 10 rules for writing. They don’t cover most of the important points of writing. They could really be …
Why you should break Elmore Leonard’s writing rules…sometimesRead More
Award-winning historical fiction and crime novels
Elmore Leonard, who died yesterday at 87, has 10 rules for writing. They don’t cover most of the important points of writing. They could really be …
Why you should break Elmore Leonard’s writing rules…sometimesRead More
The unmissable best historical thrillers, including at least a few you haven't heard of Naturally I'm assuming you've already read Mozart's Last …
To research A Name in Blood, my novel about the mystery of Caravaggio’s death, I traveled to all the places where the great artist lived and worked. I …
Writing with Paint: Learning Oils for My Caravaggio Novel ‘A Name in Blood’Read More
In the chapel of the Pio Monte della Misericordia, I stood before the great painting now known as Seven Works of Mercy (Caravaggio called it Our Lady …
If there had never been a Palestinian intifada, I might never have written my novel about the death of Mozart, MOZART’S LAST ARIA, which is published …
Historical novelists recreate the emotions and events of distant times. For some novelists, this is a matter of supreme imagination and invention, …
The long wait for a successor to Amadeus is over. In fact, my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA answers questions about the great composer’s death that are …
If there had never been a Palestinian intifada, I might never have written my novel about the death of Mozart, MOZART’S LAST ARIA, which is published …
One of the great pleasures of novel-writing is the research which, for almost every book, ought to bring the writer to investigate different areas of …
Gentleman and thug: researching my new historical novelRead More
Robert Harris has been one of my favorite authors since I first laid hands on “Fatherland,” his “what if the Nazis had won” thriller. “Enigma” and …
My voice and his voice: first- or third-person narrative in the novelRead More
Sometimes people talk about crime novels as though they were all the same. The sheer number of different names for variants of the crime novel proves …
Krimis, polars, gialli: What crime novels are called around the worldRead More
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