Wednesday 6 December 2017

BEST OF CRIME with CJ Carver

Welcome to my latest BEST OF CRIME feature, looking at crime writers' top picks, from their favourite author and fictional detective to their best writing tip. 




Today I'm delighted to welcome 

CJ CARVER

for her Know Me Now blog tour

to share her BEST OF CRIME ...



... AUTHORS
Tana French.  I love the way she combines police procedural with psychological thriller.  Her characters are empathetic and wonderfully flawed, her writing atmospheric and lyrical.  I wouldn’t say she creates rip-roaring page turners but there’s no way I can put one of her books down.


... FILMS/MOVIES
Memento.  Billed as a neo-noir psychological thriller, the story follows a man with anterograde amnesia who is trying to find who killed his wife.  What impressed me most was the way part of the film is shown in reverse order so the audience can get a sense of the mental state of the protagonist.  Immensely clever and devastating.


... TV DRAMAS
True Detective.  But only the first season, which was fantastic.  The second season was such a disappointment I can’t tell you!


... FICTIONAL KILLERS
Bluebeard.  I read this folktale when I was a child and the horror has never quite left me… 


... FICTIONAL DETECTIVES 
DC Cat Kinsella is a new kid on the block in Caz Frear’s debut Sweet Little Lies, and I loved her vulnerability and kick-ass attitude.


... MURDER WEAPONS
A private jet in Noah Hawley’s Before the Fall.  Talk about an ambitious murderer!  I thought the opening scenes were terrific as well as absolutely terrifying.
    

... DEATH SCENES
I found Sharon Bolton’s A Dark and Twisted Tide particularly nasty – shackling women in a sewage tunnel connected to the River Thames, where they were left to watch the tide slowly inching its way in and eventually creep up their legs, their waists, their throats, until they drowned.
  

... BLOGS/WEBSITES
namegenerator.biz for truly random names.  I also use www.mithrilandmages.com for creating city and town names, not just in the UK but around the globe.


... WRITING TIPS
Even if you’re not in the mood and you think you’re writing rubbish, keep pressing on because the next day you’ll find it’s not as bad as you think.


... WRITING SNACKS
Maltesers!  Oh, and endless cups of tea help because they help give me a bit of creative breathing time.


About CJ CARVER
CJ Carver is a half-English, half-kiwi, author living just outside Bath. She lived in Australia for ten years before taking up long-distance rally driving – she has driven London to Saigon, London to Cape Town, and completed 14,500 miles on the Inca Trail.
Since then she has written nine critically acclaimed novels that have been published in the UK, USA and translated into several languages.  CJ’s first novel Blood Junction won the CWA Debut Dagger and was short listed for the USA Barry Award for Best Crime Fiction Novel of the Year.  Spare Me the Truth, the first in the Forrester and Davies series, was shortlisted for the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Best Crime Novel Award.
CJ is a co-founder and one of the first judges for the Women’s World Car of The Year Award. 

Find CJ Carver on her website, on her Facebook page and on Twitter - @C_J_Carver


About KNOW ME NOW



Publisher's description
A SUICIDE. A MURDER. A CONSPIRACY.
DIGGING UP THE PAST CAN BE DEADLY . . .
A thirteen-year-old boy commits suicide.
A sixty-five-year old man dies of a heart attack.
Dan Forrester, ex-MI5 officer, is connected to them both. 
And when he discovers that his godson and his father have been murdered, he teams up with his old friend, DC Lucy Davies, to find answers.
But as the pair investigate, they unravel a dark and violent mystery stretching decades into the past and uncover a terrible secret.
A secret someone will do anything to keep buried . . . 


Know Me Know is being published by Zaffre on 14 December 2017.


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