Tastes like Fear, and Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope yours got off to a flying start. 2016 is already better than 2015 here in Bath, where the sun is managing to shine a little and the postman delivered this beautiful box of proof copies for Marnie Rome book 3: TASTES LIKE FEAR. It will out in hardback and on ebook on 7 April, with a different cover to the one in the picture but the proof copy gives a good idea of the new series 'look' for Marnie. I'm thrilled with it. If you'd like to be in with a chance of winning a proof copy then head over to my Facebook page or follow me on Twitter and look out for comps. If you'd like to pre-order the hardback or ebook, here's the link.

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Flood auction in aid of indie bookshop

The Bookcase in Hebden was a victim of the pre-Christmas floods, losing all their stock and forcing the shop to close. In stepped Sam Missingham and RC Bridgestock, who set up an auction over on ebay to raise funds to help reopen and restock the shop. One of the books being auctioned is a signed copy of Someone Else's Skin - and the winning bidder will be put into a draw to win a proof copy of my third Marnie Rome book, Tastes Like Fear, which is out in April. So get bidding!
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Someone Else's Skin and World Book Night

I'm very excited to be able to say that SOMEONE ELSE'S SKIN is a World Book Night title for 2016!

It's a genuine honour and a thrill to be part of World Book Night, which is just such a wonderful way to celebrate the power of words and of reading.

I'm chuffed to bits to think that Marnie Rome and Noah Jake will be meeting a whole host of new readers on 23 April 2016.


You can apply to be a ‪#‎WorldBookNight‬ volunteer here.

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Introducing Patricia Highsmith

Highsmith, you may say, needs no introduction. But bear with me. Because I have some exciting news to share.

Highsmith is one of my writing heroes. I love her characters, her stories, even her misanthropy. Her books are on my all-time favourite reading lists. Her 1947 New Year's Toast have been words by which I've lived my writing life. I loved taking part in the panel celebrating her work at the Theakstons Crime Writing Festival earlier this year, with Peter James, Martin Edwards, Peter Swanson and Andrew Taylor.

Imagine my excitement, then, when I was invited to write an introduction to new editions of three of her books, being republished in style by Virago, who have done a simply splendid job of the recent batch including this beautiful cover for A Tremor of Forgery.

I was invited to choose from the list of yet-to-be-republished titles, and I picked This Sweet Sickness (one of my favourites), The Two Faces of January (recently filmed) and People who Knock on the Door (little known, but a true gem).

All three books will be published in June 2016. My name on three Patricia Highsmith books! The fan-girling starts here...


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Norman's Hallowe'en Forecast: showers later

Happy Hallowe'en, everyone.

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Reviewing the Evidence

Find out what I'd do if I ruled the world in this Sixty Second interview for Reviewing the Evidence where there is also a new review of No Other Darkness by Yvonne Klein.

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No Other Darkness

Have to share this terrific new US review, by Michael Leonard (thanks, Michael!) over at Curled Up With a Good Book.

"No Other Darkness is a fabulous find, her police procedural as compelling as the very best of British thrillers."

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