I am delighted to announce that that my twenty fourth crime novel has been published and it plunges DCI Jack Harris into a murder investigation that takes him to Scotland in search of a killer.

In To Catch A Lie (The Book Folks) a man’s body is found on a country estate in the North Pennines area for which Harris is responsible.

The DCI…

Much of the writing process relies on catalysts, little bombs that explode and infuse the narrative with energy (I appreciate that chemistry practitioners may now be yelling at the page in protest at the mixed metaphors contained in that sentence but you get the idea).

So what do these catalysts look like? Well, an example from the new DCI…

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…

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…