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Sample the terror this Christmas morning
If anyone still hasn’t done their Christmas shopping and they know a loved one who prefers his/her festive treats served up with a real dose of genuine chills, there is every possibility the TERROR...
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Terrors deep under as Holmes goes to Hell
Okay ... where are we up to?It's amazing how, brief though it is, Christmas always seems to knock everything for six. Personally, I was back at work the day after Boxing Day, but that was me clicking...
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Heck hits short form as sales top half a mill
I got a really nice bit of news towards the end of last week, namely that my Heck novel sales have now hit half a million. This is a worldwide figure rather than purely British, and of course it...
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So who is the hunter and who is the prey?
It gives me great pleasure to announce that HUNTED, the fifth novel in my DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg series will be published on May 7 this year.Rather excitingly, there will be an official launch party...
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Hunting a killer with the weirdest agenda!
Okay, we’re almost there. Just five days to go, and then the big moment arrives. Yeah, you’ve got it. The most exciting date of the year so far is May 7, and no, I’m NOT talking about the UK’s General...
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Ice-cold terror as the Autons march again
I’m over the moon to report that I’ve renewed my association with the greatest long-running British television show of all time.DR WHO, has gone from strength to strength to strength in the last decade...
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Stranger and far more hideous than fiction
One thing that readers seem to like most about my DS Mark Heckenburg novels is the gallery of maniacs I serve up. If nothing else, I can honestly say that I’ve done my best to create a procession of...
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Terror strikes in the Scottish Highlands
I'm very pleased indeed to announce volume eight in the TERROR TALES series that I edit for GRAY FRIAR PRESS: TERROR TALES OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS. You can order it now though it is officially...
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Masterclass melding of crime and horror
Dark tales, sinister tales, thrillers, chillers, horrors, crime and suspense - whatever you want to call them, multimillion book-selling heavyright PETER JAMES excells at them. But you won't need to...
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Full fathom five, true terror lies ... soon!!!
Can anyone think of a scarier place on Earth than the deepest regions of the sea? You know, that endless unlit realm of mud, sand and rock, silent except for those eerie, inhuman calls echoing through...
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Checking out those spooky rites of spring
One question I was asked a lot after the second novel in my DS Heckenburg series - SACRIFICE - was published last year, was why, of all four seasons, I opted to set it in the spring. Surely autumn and...
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Blazing on towards next publication date
It’s a bit difficult to post a blog this month and not talk about the latest developments in the world of Heck – aka Detective Sergeant Mark Heckenburg, my fictional crime investigator. There seems to...
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Waxing lyrical on mayhem and murder
We kick off this week with the full interview I did about a month ago with Lars Schafft and Silke Wronkowski, the two charming hosts of KRIMI-COUCH-TV, a massive German website with a strong focus on...
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Killing Club imminent, blog tour hits road
As part of what is a pretty big week for me - THE KILLING CLUB is published tomorrow - I today embark on my first ever official blog tour.What this means is that various bloggers and web-masters have...
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Here at last: TERROR TALES OF WALES
In the midst of the ongoing HECK saga, and with WAR WOLF now looking as if it's going to be a major project for me in 2014, I still consider it vital that the TERROR TALES series - the collection of...
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How it began: Heck vs the weirdest killers
Anyone following this blog will know that my new Heck novel, THE KILLING CLUB, was published at the end of last month, and that a blog tour accompanied it. What that basically meant was that I was...
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Thrillers, chillers, shockers and killers ...
A new series of reviews of dark fiction (crime, thriller and horror novels) – both old and new – that I have recently read and enjoyed. I’ll endeavour to keep the SPOILERS to a minimum; there will...
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Madness, murder, mayhem - Glasgow style
First up, the all-important news that I'll be appearing at the Bellshill Cultural Centre, just outside Glasgow, on Tuesday October 13 this year, to chat about my Heck novels and anything else the...
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Grim tales from the darker end of the year
Okay ... it's THAT time of year again. Summer is finally over. The vibrant greens and yellows of the August leafage transform to red and orange. The mornings turns fresher and cooler, the nights arrive...
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Mystery thrillers in days of smoke and soot
Seeing as there's been a delay on the next Heck novel, I didn't want this autumn to pass without any kind of publication from me. So I've taken the opportunity to club together a bunch of stories that...
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