Today I'm delighted to welcome
CATHERINE STEADMAN
to share her BEST OF CRIME ...
... AUTHORS
Gillian Flynn.
... FILMS/MOVIES
Seven.
... TV DRAMAS
It’s true crime but ... The Jinx.
... FICTIONAL KILLERS
Cat Woman (Tim Burton’s Batman Returns).
... FICTIONAL DETECTIVES
Rebus (I can’t not think of Ken Stott in this role).
... MURDER WEAPONS
Plant pot on head, lol! See Hitchcock’s ‘A Lady Vanishes’.
... DEATH SCENES
I did an episode of Midsomer Murders a couple of years ago where my husband was run over by a decommissioned WW2 tank after a cosplay Blitz party, lol!
... BLOGS/WEBSITES
YouTube - a treasure trove of weapon information and practical tips...
... WRITING TIPS
A thriller is around 85,000 words: that’s 34 chapters at about 2500 words each. I am to get around 2500 to 3000 words a day. Don’t judge the first draft, just redraft before passing it on to anyone else. It’s so much easier to whittle a story out of a rough first draft than to try and write a third draft out of thin air.
... WRITING SNACKS
Coffee.
About CATHERINE STEADMAN
Catherine Steadman is an actress and writer based in North London. She has appeared in leading roles on British television as well as on stage in the West End, most recently in The Rook on Starz and Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution in 2018. In 2016 she was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Oppenheimer. She is best known for her role as Mabel Lane Fox in Downton Abbey. She grew up in the New Forest and now lives in London with a small dog and average sized man. Her first novel Something in the Water was selected for the Reese Witherspoon Book Club in July 2018 and has been optioned by Twentieth Century Fox for adaption, with Reese Witherspoon attached to produce. It was also a Richard & Judy Book Club pick in 2019.
Find Catherine Steadman on Twitter - @CatSteadman
About MR NOBODY
Publisher's description
When a man is found on a Norfolk beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him; to international medical experts who are baffled by him; to the national press who call him Mr Nobody; everyone wants answers.
Who is this man? And what happened to him?
Neuropsychiatrist Dr Emma Lewis is asked to assess the patient. This is her field of expertise, this is the chance she’s been waiting for and this case could make her name known across the world. But therein lies the danger. Emma left this same small town in Norfolk fourteen years ago and has taken great pains to cover all traces of her past since then.
But now something – or – someone – is calling her back. And the more time Emma spends with her patient, the more alarmed she comes. Has she walked into danger?
Mr Nobody was published by Simon & Schuster on 9 January 2020.
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