Manchester Just as David Simon writes about Baltimore because that is his world, I find the British city of Manchester so inspiring. Voted the UK’s most violent city, Manchester is a strange mix of leafy suburbs, where white collar crime such as tax evasion, fraud...
My new novel, When the Corn is Waist High, is a crime thriller set in rural Indiana in the 1980’s, and is inspired by a lot of my favorite crime films. Most crime fans, even if they aren’t film buffs, are familiar with the most famous crime thriller movies like...
I think there’s always something special about a debut novel: it’s usually the culmination of a long, long period of work, hair-tearing, sleepless nights, failures, disappointments… and, waiting in the wings, the desire to show who you are as a writer. What makes...
Janice Hallett explores the 5 things that inspired The Appeal
When I decided to write a historical novel five years ago, as a break from my intense career up to that point as a corporate lawyer, my reasoning was simple: I liked books, I liked history, and I liked research and writing—so, why not?
In no particular order, I’d like to add! 1). Daphne du Maurier For me, it’s not always necessarily how ‘well’ a writer writes that captures my imagination or love for them but how their words make me feel. My lovely mum, Jennie, is a voracious reader and passed her...
