Today I'm delighted to welcome
CORRIE JACKSON
for her The Perfect Victim blog tour
to share her BEST OF CRIME ...
... AUTHORS
Man, that’s
tough. There are a zillion crime authors I admire. But I’m going to plump for Tana
French. She is a master-plotter, a stickler for detail and a creator of
characters who walk right off the page. I’ve read every single one of her
novels and what I love most is her writing smarts. For me, French proves that a
police procedural can also be a literary masterpiece.
... FILMS/MOVIES
Goodfellas.
I don’t think you can match Scorsese’s gangster movie for pace, energy and
(very) dark humour. Joe Pesci’s ‘do I amuse you’ speech still gives me chills.
... TV DRAMAS
Fargo.
Fargo. Fargo. I love everything about it. The plots, the characters, the music,
the cinematography. The first series starred Billy Bob Thornton as the
creepiest villain in TV history. Doesn’t make me want to visit Minnesota,
though.
... FICTIONAL KILLERS
Right,
don’t laugh but I’m picking the killer(s) from the Wes Craven Scream movies.
That mask – oh my god. I hate being
scared. Ironic, given that I’m a crime writer, I know. I remember wanting to
flee the cinema but I couldn’t because my friends would take the piss. I
haven’t toughened up since then.
... FICTIONAL DETECTIVES
Sherlock
Holmes. My fixation with crime started with him. In fact, while my
school-friends were lusting after Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix, I was all
about Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation. The aquiline nose! The pipe! The violin
solos! I was so obsessed that, aged 13, I forced friends to attend my Sherlock
Holmes-themed birthday party, complete with deerstalker cake (perhaps the real
mystery is how I had any friends).
... MURDER WEAPONS
My favourite is Umberto Eco’s genius technique in The Name of the Rose. A monk
poisons the pages of Aristotle’s Poetics so that anyone who licks
their fingers to turn the page is poisoned.
... DEATH SCENES
Hannah
Tinti’s new book The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is phenomenal. Halfway
through the story you see how the protagonist’s mum died and I’ve never gripped
a book so hard in my life.
... WRITING TIPS
Stop making excuses. As Jodi Picoult says: ‘You can’t edit a
blank page’. When you sit down to write, hammer out 350 words. Don’t think
about it, just do it. This technique forces you past the ‘horror of the white
page’ stage. Yes, you’ll end up deleting ninety percent of it, but at least
your fingers are warmed up and your brain is engaged.
... WRITING SNACKS
It’s a simple formula, really.
Draft 1 = fruit
Draft 2 = chocolate
Structural edits = gin
About CORRIE JACKSON
Corrie
Jackson has been a journalist for fifteen years. During that time she has
worked at Harper's Bazaar, the Daily Mail, Grazia and Glamour.
Corrie now lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband and two children. Breaking
Dead, her debut novel, was the first in the journalist Sophie Kent series
and was described by Glamour as 'Gripping . . . crime with a side order
of chic' and by the Sun as 'Original, amazingly written and tense'.
Find Corrie Jackson on her website and on Twitter - @CorrieJacko
About THE PERFECT VICTIM
Publisher's description
Husband,
friend, colleague . . . killer?
Charlie and
Emily Swift are the Instagram-perfect couple: gorgeous, successful and in love.
But then Charlie is named as the prime suspect in a gruesome murder and Emily's
world falls apart. Desperate for answers, she turns to Charlie's troubled best
friend, London Herald journalist, Sophie Kent. Sophie knows police have the
wrong man - she trusts Charlie with her life.
Then
Charlie flees. Sophie puts her reputation on the line to clear his name. But as
she's drawn deeper into Charlie and Emily's unravelling marriage, she realises
that there is nothing perfect about the Swifts. As she begins to question
Charlie's innocence, something happens that blows the investigation - and their
friendship - apart.
Now Sophie
isn't just fighting for justice, she's fighting for her life.
The Perfect Victim is being published by Bonnier on 16 November 2017.
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