Caroline: I imagine that most crime fiction fans have a mental list of their favourite tropes and plot devices. I know I do, and it's always a pleasure to encounter them out there in the wild as I'm reading my way through as much golden age
Caroline: The crime at the heart of a classic murder mystery tends to be a personal, even intimate one. Whereas later twentieth century whodunnits and thrillers began to explore the crimes of strangers in greater depth — stalkers, serial killers, and so forth — during the interwar years, most fictional murderers were
Caroline: I've always loved writing that can immerse me in another place and time, especially one very different to my own. There are lots of types of books that do this — historical fiction, science fiction, literary fiction, even some non-fiction. But for me, one type of book does
