Category Archives: Crime

A Christmas Story (Part 3) by Alan Roderick

The third instalment of Christmas mayhem by Alan Roderick for Crime Cymru Crime Cymru This year, Santa’s little helpers have been more than generous and we’ve got a bumper crop of wonderful Christmas short stories for you – from the dark to the whimsical and all stops in between. So put your favourite Christmas jumper on, pourContinue reading “A Christmas Story (Part 3) by Alan Roderick”

A Christmas Story (Part 2) by Alan Roderick

Second part of Alan Roderick’s Christmas story for Crime Cymru Crime Cymru This year, Santa’s little helpers have been more than generous and we’ve got a bumper crop of wonderfulChristmas short storiesfor you – from the dark to the whimsical and all stops in between. So put your favourite Christmas jumper on, pour yourself aContinue reading “A Christmas Story (Part 2) by Alan Roderick”

A Christmas Story (Part 1) by Alan Roderick

Part 1 of a 3 part Christmas story courtesy of Alan Roderick for Crime Cymru Crime Cymru This year, Santa’s little helpers have been more than generous and we’ve got a bumper crop of wonderfulChristmas short storiesfor you – from the dark to the whimsical and all stops in between. So put your favourite ChristmasContinue reading “A Christmas Story (Part 1) by Alan Roderick”

BOOKCASE – The Unravelling by Thorne Moore

I get to talk about The Unravelling on the Crime Cymru blog. Crime Cymru In this series, we invite our Crime Cymru authors to showcase an excerpt from one of their books. This week, Thorne Moore talks about researching the recent past and resurrecting childhood memories when writing The Unravelling. My crime books are psychologicalContinue reading “BOOKCASE – The Unravelling by Thorne Moore”

BOOKCASE – Letters from the Dead by Sam Hurcom

Crime Cymru In this series, we invite our Crime Cymru authors to showcase an excerpt from one of their books. This week, Sam Hurcom brings us a tense scene from the hugely atmospheric second novel in his Thomas Bexley gothic crime series. Letters from the Deadis the second novel featuring Thomas Bexley, Special Investigator withContinue reading “BOOKCASE – Letters from the Dead by Sam Hurcom”

Genres Within Genres

I write fiction. When I wrote A Time For Silence, my first book to be published, I saw it primarily as a contemporary novel with historical overtones, but I was told that it would be classified as a crime novel. Which is fair enough; there are crimes in it. But in my head I wasContinue reading “Genres Within Genres”

Going Gothic with the Gŵyl Crime Cymru Festival

Crime Cymru is now holding the first Welsh International Crime Fiction festival, on-line (prior to being alive – apart from the murder victims – at the Gŵyl Crime Cymru Festival in Aberystwyth next year). In fact this year’s festival finishes tomorrow, May 3rd,when I shall be moderator at the 16th event. Moderator make me thinkContinue reading “Going Gothic with the Gŵyl Crime Cymru Festival”

Gŵyl Crime Cymru Festival 2021

After years of queuing up to attend one book event after another, not to mention helping Judith Barrow to run the Narberth Book Fair, 2020 crashed into the barriers, everything was cancelled – no book fairs, no signings, not real-life book launches. A chance for me to discover just how much I miss proper contactContinue reading “Gŵyl Crime Cymru Festival 2021”

BOOKCASE with Alison Layland

To begin at the beginning… Alison Layland praises the Prologue, with extracts from her novels. Crime Cymru In this series, we invite our Crime Cymru authors to showcase an excerpt from their books. This week, Alison Layland writes in praise of the prologue in crime fiction, with illustrations from her novels, Someone Else’s Conflict and Riverflow.Continue reading “BOOKCASE with Alison Layland”