Today I'm delighted to welcome
LINDA GREEN
to share her BEST OF CRIME ...
... AUTHORS
Louise
Doughty is a hugely accomplished writer who manages to weave brilliantly
addictive plots while writing beautiful prose and making us care about the
characters she is writing about.
... FILMS/MOVIES
The Lovely
Bones by Alice Sebold is one of my favourite novels. It begins after a murder
has been committed and the film adaptation is suitably chilling whilst beautifully
conveying Susie Salmon's love for her family.
... TV DRAMAS
Three
Girls. I’m interested in crime stories from the victims’ perspective and the dramatised
story of the appalling Rochdale sexual abuse grooming case was compulsive
viewing.
... FICTIONAL KILLERS
I'm more of
a psychological thriller fan than a hard-core crime fan, so it's the people
close to home who turn out to be killers who I find particularly unsettling.
... FICTIONAL DETECTIVES
I like my
detectives to be human and have the ability to make me laugh and cry, which is
why I'd have to say Olivia Coleman's brilliantly portrayed Ellie Miller in
Broadchurch.
... MURDER WEAPONS
I'm a great
believer in less is more in terms of writing a terrifying scene, which is why
I'm not going for a murder weapon but the scissors used to secretly cut off a
child's hair during the night in The Night Visitor by Lucy Atkins. A truly
chilling scene.
... DEATH SCENES
I love
Sister by Rosamund Lupton and the final scene in that (not wanting to give
anything away) is one that stayed with me for a long time.
... BLOGS/WEBSITES
I'm
fortunate enough to have a friend who's married to a police officer, which has
proved very helpful. Also, having worked as a journalist on regional newspapers
for ten years, I managed to pick up quite a lot about how the police and the
media operate in criminal cases.
... WRITING TIPS
Read widely
and try to work out why a book does or doesn't work for you, you can learn a
lot by reading books which you don't like. And remember that it is characters
who move us. You can have the best plot/twists going but if the reader doesn't actually
care about any of the characters, it will be quickly forgotten after the last
page.
... WRITING SNACKS
Bananas and
brazil nuts - I'm an annoyingly healthy eater!
About LINDA GREEN
Linda Green is the bestselling author of eight novels. Her
latest psychological thriller, After I've Gone, published by Quercus, is a top
five Amazon kindle bestseller. Her previous psychological thriller, While My Eyes
Were Closed, was the sixth bestselling novel on Amazon kindle in 2016, selling
more than 450,000 copies across all editions. She lives in West Yorkshire with
her husband and son.
Find Linda Green on her website, on her Facebook page and on Twitter - @LindaGreenisms
About After I've Gone
Publisher's description
Status Update - You have 18 months left to live . . .
Jess Mount goes
online one wet morning in January, and discovers that her Facebook timeline
appears to has skipped
forward 18 months to a day
when shocked family and friends are sharing heart-breaking tributes to her
following her death
in an accident. Jess is left scared and confused: is she the target of a cruel
prank or is this a terrifying glimpse of her true fate? Amongst the posts are
photos of a gorgeous baby son she has not yet conceived. But when a post from
her best friend suggests
her death was deliberate, Jess realises that if she changes the future to save
her own life, the baby boy she has fallen in love with may never exist.
After I've Gone was published by Quercus Books on 15 June 2017.
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