Sharpen your knives... Writing the Murder coming this September!

 

The edits are done, the manuscript is handed in... and I'm thrilled to announce that the third book in our 'Writing...' series will be published by Dead Ink Books on 26th September!

Following hot on the heels of Writing the Uncanny (Winner - British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction) and Writing the Future (longlisted for the BSFA Awards), Writing the Murder features 13 brand new essays exploring the craft of mystery fiction. Including spotlight pieces on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith, it's intended as both an inspiration for aspiring writers and an exploration for the avid reader of crime fiction.

The table of contents is as follows:

Tess Little - It Bleeds
Charlie Higson - The Killer Inside Me: Writing the Criminal
Andrew Gallix - The Deader the Better: On Writing the Murder
Barry Forshaw - No Compromises: The Crime Fiction of Patricia Highsmith
Louise Welsh - There’s Been a Murder: Miscarriages of Justice, Respectability and the Fatal Flaw
Carole Johnstone - Setting Out Your Stall
Saima Mir - The Mirrored Room
Jessie Greengrass - On Reading as Escape: All of Christie’s Murderers, and Me
Vaseem Khan - Making the Dead Dance: Historical Crime Fiction
Quentin Bates - Breaking the Translation Barrier
Paul Finch - Cop Stuff: Fact or Fantasy
Tom Mead - The Method and the Effect: Conjuring the Impossible Crime
Tim Major - The Problem of the Faithful Pastiche

Pre-orders are open now! Co-editor Richard V. Hirst and I are so excited to get this book out into the world - it's a great companion piece to the two volumes so far, and an intriguing investigation into mystery fiction in its own right. Get sharpening those knives!

(Pencils. I meant pencils...)

Pre-order a copy here.