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…

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…

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 Harry’s Torment, and John Dean, whose latest novel is A Breach of Trust, talk about their life of crime, including explaining why…

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…