Today I'm delighted to welcome
Anne Coates
for her Death's Silent Judgement blog tour
to share her BEST OF CRIME ...
to share her BEST OF CRIME ...
... AUTHORS
Patricia
Highsmith for, among other works, The
Talented Mr Ripley because I love an amoral protagonist and her writing is
brilliant.
... FILMS/MOVIES
Always
enjoy a good British crime film so depending on my mood, my favourite is The Long Good Friday with Bob Hoskins or
10 Rillington Place with Richard
Attenborough playing the serial killer John Christie. Both actors give
fascinating portrayals of evil.
... TV DRAMAS
So many
brilliant dramas to choose from! I am glad the third series of Broadchurch made up for the blip of its
predecessor but for real OMG moments it has to be Line of Duty. I love the way characters you thought were going to
be essential to the narrative are killed off in such dramatic ways and I don’t
mind having to suspend disbelief at times when the acting is pitch perfect.
However Happy Valley and the Unforgotten take the accolade for their
superlative female leads.
... FICTIONAL KILLERS
Without
doubt Hannibal Lecter. His character in Silence
of the Lambs is bad enough but just reading the sequel, which is a
masterpiece in understatement, gave me horrific nightmares. I had to stop
reading it at nighttime. I don’t think any other killer has terrified me more.
... FICTIONAL DETECTIVES
Has to be
my beloved Morse. When Colin Dexter died in March I reread The Remorseful Day. Sublime.
... MURDER WEAPONS
I had to
think about this and the following question. I like the idea of some mundane
everyday item put to grisly use. However water is one which holds the most
terror for me. Just the thought of being held under water…
... DEATH SCENES
This is a
bit of a cheat really – not a death scene but a transformation in The Witches by Roald Dahl. When the
Grand High Witch administers a potion that turns the young boy narrator into a
rat, there is no antidote and the rest of his life (presumably much shorter
thank a human one) must be lived out as a rodent.
... BLOGS/WEBSITES
I use
Google images a lot. In Death’s Silent
Judgement I found pictures of the Bull Ring at Waterloo, which housed
Cardboard City. I used to walk through there years ago but didn’t have the
foresight to take my own photos then. I check out popular names for the year a
character was born in on the Office for National Statistics and Google dates
then follow links to newspaper articles if I’m searching for something
specific.
... WRITING TIPS
Get words
on the page. It helps me to strive for a daily word count that is achievable
then anything more is pure bonus. My first drafts are like a skeleton that’s
been assembled in a dark room – an arm where a leg should be, toes coming out
of the skull and so on. But at least I have something to work with. Don’t be
intimidated by what other writers say or do. Follow your own path and also
read, read, read and not just crime books. And try not to compare yourself with
what other people are doing/achieving. (I constantly need to remind myself of
that last point!)
... WRITING SNACKS
Not writing
snacks rather snacking pauses. On a good day it’s fruit and nuts but there are
lots of chocolate days…
About ANNE COATES
Anne’s latest book, Death’s
Silent Judgement (the second Hannah Weybridge thriller) is just published
by Urbane Publications. She is also the author of two collections of short
stories and seven non-fiction books and works as a book editor.
Her freelance journalism has taken her to gas rigs on the
North Sea, from a financial fraud department to interviewing Glenda Jackson
when an MP with lots of writing about health and parenting in between.
Find Anne Coates on her website, FB page and on Twitter - @Anne_Coates1
About DEATH'S SILENT JUDGEMENT
Publisher's description
Following
the deadly events of Dancers in the Wind, freelance journalist and single
mother Hannah Weybridge is thrown into the heart of a horrific murder
investigation when a friend, Liz Rayman, is found with her throat slashed at
her dental practice.
With few
clues to the apparently motiveless crime Hannah throws herself into discovering
the reason for her friend's brutal murder, and is determined to unmask the
killer. But before long Hannah's investigations place her in mortal danger, her
hunt for the truth placing her in the path of a remorseless killer...
Death's Silent Judgement was published by Urbane Publications on 11 May 2017.
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