SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Why We Listen to Psychopaths: The compelling testimony of the smartest, coldest figures in literature

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Why We Listen to Psychopaths: The compelling testi...: “ You caught me because we’re very much alike. Without our imaginations, we’d be like all those other poor dullards. Fear is the price of ou...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Can a Wealthy Family Buy Their Alibi? Books Focused on Opulent Wealth, Family Secrets & Suspense by Georgina Cross

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Can a Wealthy Family Buy Their Alibi? Books Focuse...:   For readers, novels about the uber wealthy can be an enticing foray into another world, a sneak peek into how “the other half” lives, comp...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Writing No Less The Devil by Stuart MacBride

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Writing No Less The Devil by Stuart MacBride: Normally it can be quite difficult for me to identify the exact genesis of a story, but that’s not the case with No Less the Devil . Years a...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence 2022 Shortlists

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence 2...:   Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) have announced the Shortlists for the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Wr...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Books to Look Forward to From Bloomsbury Books

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Books to Look Forward to From Bloomsbury Books:   July 2022 Don't be ordinary, Leo. Passion has its price.'1883. Leo Stanhope, transgender journalist and amateur detective, and his...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Charlotte Duckworth on - Why I’m drawn to writing dark books

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Charlotte Duckworth on - Why I’m drawn to writing ...: Like most writers, when I started out I didn’t have a clear understanding of what genres were or how they worked. I didn’t have a clue what ...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: “Snowdonia, the perfect backdrop for Welsh Noir” b...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: “Snowdonia, the perfect backdrop for Welsh Noir” b...:   ‘ It was winter and the rugged hills, valleys and lakes of Snowdonia were snowbound and bleak. This was a landscape that beat to the drum ...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Silje O. Ulstein on Plotting Like a True Panster

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Silje O. Ulstein on Plotting Like a True Panster: Where plotters are usually defined as storytellers who plot their stories before they start writing them, pantsers write by “ the seat of th...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: True Crime . . . in Fiction by Alex Finlay

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: True Crime . . . in Fiction by Alex Finlay: Joe Exotic. Carole Baskin. Adnan Syed. Steven Avery. If you immediately recognize these names, chances are you’re one of the millions who ca...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Escape from New York by A F Carter

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Escape from New York by A F Carter: A series of television commercials, ubiquitous a few years ago, portrayed a terribly embarrassing incident of some sort, memorialized by an ...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Rob Parker on research!

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Rob Parker on research!:   This topic of research is one I often get asked about, and one I throw myself at with a bit too much gusto. So much of the time, way more ...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: C C Humphreys on One London Day

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: C C Humphreys on One London Day: When I told people that my newest novel was to be set in the present day, many were surprised. After all, my books thus far have all been ei...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: An interview with DS Max Craige

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: An interview with DS Max Craige: Neil Lancaster is the author of the DS Max Craigie series. The first novel in the series Dead Man's Grave  was longlisted for the 2021 W...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction:   The Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction (‘The Lindisfarne Prize’) is a literary prize which recognises outstanding writing in the genre of...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Here Comes Reacher!

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Here Comes Reacher!:   With the Reacher films still a polarising topic the anticipation for the Amazon Prime Video eight episode adaptation of  Reacher  has been...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: A New Detective on the Block by Nadine Matheson

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: A New Detective on the Block by Nadine Matheson:   Last year I contributed to the growing list of crime thrillers when my debut novel ‘ The Jigsaw Man was published. I’ve been a fan of cri...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Announcing Reacher

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Announcing Reacher:   It has been announce that REACHER will hit TV screens around the world on 4th February in an 8 part series based on the first Jack Reacher...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Understanding Monsters, Surviving Monsters by Clea Simon

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Understanding Monsters, Surviving Monsters by Clea...:   Nobody in our high school was completely surprised when Joel Rifkin turned out to be a serial killer. Were we shocked? Sure. The quiet kin...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: More Classic Hardboiled Crime From Telos

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: More Classic Hardboiled Crime From Telos: By popular demand, Telos Publishing is reprinting two more of the classic pulp 'hardboiled' Hank Janson detective novels from the 50...

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Flying Solo? Mike Ripley on writing his latest ‘Albert Campion’ mystery

SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: Flying Solo? Mike Ripley on writing his latest ‘Al...: When I was first tempted to continue the adventures of Margery Allingham’s famous detective Albert Campion, almost ten years ago now, I had ...