January 2015 Blog Posts (4)

Who is your favourite fictional detective?

Apparently, Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin is penning another Rebus story, his fourth  comeback since the curmudgeonly investigator closed his first final case in Exit Music in 2007.

This delights me as Rebus is my favourite modern detective (Sherlock Holmes is the greatest of all time in for me) but which is your favourite all-time fictional detective?

You can tell me at my Facebook site…

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Added by John Dean on January 31, 2015 at 9:42 — No Comments

E-books

The subject of e-books can spark fierce debate – are they ‘proper’ books? I have heard people suggest that they are not ‘proper’ because they are not physical items, although you hear such comments less and less as it becomes clear that this is no flash in the pan.

Personally, I love hardcopy books and I love e–books (some of my own works are hardcopy and e-books and my company also publishes some authors…

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Added by John Dean on January 29, 2015 at 14:30 — No Comments

A life of crime

Part of the Darlington Arts Festival

Saturday May 23

2.30--4pm

A Life of Crime

Darlington Art Gallery, Crown Street Library, Darlington

Darlington-based crime writers Bud Craig, whose recently published second novel is Dead Certainty, Mike Beck, author of Harrys Torment, and John Dean, whose latest novel is A Breach of Trust, talk about their life of crime, including explaining why…

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Added by John Dean on January 12, 2015 at 11:40 — No Comments

A Breach of Trust to be published

My latest novel, A Breach of Trust (Hale) is out on January 30. A crooked businessman suffers a fall at home and there is no reason to think it is anything other than an accident until after he dies when information comes to hand which points towards murder.

Detective Chief Inspector Blizzard and his team are brought in to investigate and attention quickly focuses on…

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Added by John Dean on January 12, 2015 at 11:30 — No Comments

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Author Ian Robinson has a new crime novel out - and it’s attracting plenty of glowing reviews. Criminal Justice (The Book Folks) introduces undercover police officer Sam Batford, a man who walks the narrow line between successful detective and corrupt cop. The novel sees him sent to work with a serious crime team in London in an investigation which sees him play the good…See More
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I have just started writing my next crime novel and I have more time to concentrate on it now that Kirkcudbright Book Week, which I help organise, has come to an end for this year.In fact, the subject of how best to begin a story cropped up during Book Week, not least when I chaired an in-conversation event at the Selkirk Arms, featuring crime writers Traude Ailinger,…See More
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 I am working on a new DCI John Bizzard crime novel for my publisher The Book Folks, and that means being faced with the dreaded blank first page.So, how do writers get going under such circumstances? How do they start writing their story? Well, in this hectic world, I have always felt that there is a lot to be said for holding back and allowing myself a little time to…See More
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