Today I'm delighted to welcome
WILL DEAN
for his Dark Pines blog tour
to share his BEST OF CRIME ...
... AUTHORS
Shirley Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, Stephen King, Yaa Gyasi, Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters, Val McDermid, Gillian Flynn, George Saunders, Abir Mukherjee, Muriel Spark, Thomas Harris, Samanta Schweblin, Susan Hill, Helen McDonald, Chris Whitaker, Agatha Christie, Jon McGregor, Roald Dahl, Ottessa Moshfegh, Michel Faber, Imran Mahmood, Michelle Paver.
I enjoy atmospheric, unnerving, immersive fiction. I read about two books per week and I like to be anchored to the story within a few pages – either by the setting, or the voice, or the character relationships.
Shirley Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, Stephen King, Yaa Gyasi, Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters, Val McDermid, Gillian Flynn, George Saunders, Abir Mukherjee, Muriel Spark, Thomas Harris, Samanta Schweblin, Susan Hill, Helen McDonald, Chris Whitaker, Agatha Christie, Jon McGregor, Roald Dahl, Ottessa Moshfegh, Michel Faber, Imran Mahmood, Michelle Paver.
I enjoy atmospheric, unnerving, immersive fiction. I read about two books per week and I like to be anchored to the story within a few pages – either by the setting, or the voice, or the character relationships.
... FILMS/MOVIES
Fargo, The Shining, The Godfather, The Silence of the Lambs, Labyrinth, The Road, Alien, The Hurricane, Jaws, No Country for Old Men, Leon, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Let The Right One In, The Deer Hunter, Into the wild.
Fargo, The Shining, The Godfather, The Silence of the Lambs, Labyrinth, The Road, Alien, The Hurricane, Jaws, No Country for Old Men, Leon, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Let The Right One In, The Deer Hunter, Into the wild.
The gradual development
of Michael Corleone (The Godfather) from innocent hero to villainous Don is
exquisitely done.
... TV DRAMAS
The Sopranos, Twin Peaks, Luther, Mad Men, Hannibal, The Good Wife, Broadchurch.
Twin Peaks is weirdly beautiful. I love the music and the sense of place and the minor characters.
The Sopranos, Twin Peaks, Luther, Mad Men, Hannibal, The Good Wife, Broadchurch.
Twin Peaks is weirdly beautiful. I love the music and the sense of place and the minor characters.
... FICTIONAL KILLERS
Merricat, Hannibal Lecter, Anton Chigurh, Jaws, Lizzie Borden, Tom Ripley, Annie Wilkes.
I think Chigurh and Lecter are both INCREDIBLY chilling.
Merricat, Hannibal Lecter, Anton Chigurh, Jaws, Lizzie Borden, Tom Ripley, Annie Wilkes.
I think Chigurh and Lecter are both INCREDIBLY chilling.
... FICTIONAL DETECTIVES
Clarice Starling, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, Dale Cooper, Karen Pirie, Tony Hill, Carol Jordan, Harry Hole, Zigic & Ferreira, Captain Sam Wyndham, Sergeant Banerjee, Sherlock Holmes, Jack Reacher, Inspector McLean. The interplay between Starling and Lecter is so well-crafted. She’s a fantastic character.
Clarice Starling, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, Dale Cooper, Karen Pirie, Tony Hill, Carol Jordan, Harry Hole, Zigic & Ferreira, Captain Sam Wyndham, Sergeant Banerjee, Sherlock Holmes, Jack Reacher, Inspector McLean. The interplay between Starling and Lecter is so well-crafted. She’s a fantastic character.
... MURDER WEAPONS
Air-powered cattle bolt gun (No Country for Old Men). Such an interesting, horrific murder weapon. It’s confusing for police (entry wound, no exit wound, no bullet), and shocking for readers/viewers partly because it’s so unexpected, and partly because Chiguhr has to be in close physical contact with a victim in order to effectively discharge the weapon.
Air-powered cattle bolt gun (No Country for Old Men). Such an interesting, horrific murder weapon. It’s confusing for police (entry wound, no exit wound, no bullet), and shocking for readers/viewers partly because it’s so unexpected, and partly because Chiguhr has to be in close physical contact with a victim in order to effectively discharge the weapon.
... DEATH SCENES
Terminator II (thumbs up). So bittersweet!
Terminator II (thumbs up). So bittersweet!
... BLOGS/WEBSITES
No blogs/websites for research, but I love On Writing by Stephen King & Stiff by Mary Roach.
No blogs/websites for research, but I love On Writing by Stephen King & Stiff by Mary Roach.
... WRITING TIPS
I think about Stephen King’s quote before I start each new story: ‘You must not come lightly to the blank page’. Also: read as many good books as you can. Read your genre. Read outside of your genre. Read books published last week. Read books published a hundred years ago. Read books written by people who don’t look or sound or write or think like you.
I think about Stephen King’s quote before I start each new story: ‘You must not come lightly to the blank page’. Also: read as many good books as you can. Read your genre. Read outside of your genre. Read books published last week. Read books published a hundred years ago. Read books written by people who don’t look or sound or write or think like you.
... WRITING SNACKS
Gott & Blandat super sour Swedish sweets (very important for editing)
About WILL DEAN
Will Dean grew up
in the East Midlands, living in nine different villages before the age of
eighteen. After studying law at the LSE, and working many varied jobs in
London, he settled in rural Sweden with his wife. He built a wooden house in a
boggy forest clearing and it’s from this base that he compulsively reads and
writes.
Find Will Dean on Twitter - @willrdean
About DARK PINES
Publisher's description
An isolated Swedish
town.
A deaf reporter
terrified of nature.
A dense spruce forest
overdue for harvest.
A pair of eyeless
hunters found murdered in the woods.
It’s week one of the
Swedish elk hunt and the sound of gunfire is everywhere. When Tuva Moodyson
investigates the story that could make her career she stumbles on a web of
secrets that knit Gavrik town together. Are the latest murders connected to the
Medusa killings twenty years ago? Is someone following her? Why take the eyes?
Tuva must face her demons and venture deep into the woods to stop the killer
and write the story. And then get the hell out of Gavrik.
Dark Pines was published by Oneworld Publications on 4 January 2018.
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