I have my mother to thank for my love of heists. She’s not a thief (as far as I know!) but someone who’s deeply attached to her French heritage, despite emigrating from France more than 50 years ago. When Lupin premiered on Netflix in 2021, I instantly thought of my mother, who regularly borrowed Maurice […]

Award-winning British women’s fiction author, Liz Fielding, turned to crime writing during the Covid pandemic “lockdown” when she finally got down to writing a story – inspired by an Open University documentary — that had been in her head for some years. Murder Among the Roses is shortlisted for this year’s People’s Book Prize – […]

Top Ten Fictional Women Detectives and PIs GUEST POST FOR THE STRAND FROM KARA THOMAS AUTHOR OF LOST TO DUNE ROAD, Thomas & Mercer   Crime fiction has come a long way in terms of how women characters are represented—gone are the days where women were either office secretaries or nagging wives to the male […]