MJ Arlidge

On the Radar: New Japanese crime fiction, and more

3 June, 2022

This week our news column includes a big new thriller from Dan Malakin and a new Scottish crime fiction novel, but we’re leading off with something esoteric from Japan. Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight is an intriguing title and we’re sure it’s a metaphor for…

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On the Radar: New German crime fiction, and more

By crimefictionlover

11 June, 2021

This week our new crime books column gets started with a bestseller from Germany by the country’s new star writer, Romy Hausmann. We’ve also got senseless crimes in Southampton, the new Skelfs novel by Doug Johnstone, a novel from Downton Abbey’s Catherine Steadman and an…

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A Gift for Dying

By DeathBecomesHer

14 March, 2019

Written by MJ Arlidge — He’s best known for the popular DI Helen Grace series set in Southampton, and now MJ Arlidge is branching out in another direction with a standalone which crosses the Atlantic. We’re in Chicago, where a particularly nasty serial killer is…

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Interview: MJ Arlidge

By DeathBecomesHer

1 March, 2019

MJ Arlidge wears several hats. As well as being the creator of the hugely popular series of crime novels featuring DI Helen Grace, he has worked as a TV producer on the likes of EastEnders, Monarch of the Glen and Undeniable, and is a screenwriter…

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A crime book is a gift you give yourself

By crimefictionlover

22 February, 2019

On the Radar — The first week of March is a big one on the crime fiction calendar with plenty of new books coming out, and we’ve got some of the best for you here in On the Radar. Our top pick this week is…

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Morecambe & Vice 2018 - a festival of crime writing and hidden talents

By DeathBecomesHer

2 October, 2018

In a chilly and cavernous, tatty-around-the-edges but still beautiful old theatre on Morecambe’s seafront, MJ Arlidge is holding forth. He has a bottle in one hand, a cocktail shaker in the other, and he’s preparing a killer pear martini for his fellow panellists who are…

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Indie authors make their move

By crimefictionlover

14 September, 2018

On the Radar — It’s a good week for anyone looking for work by indie and self-published authors. Michael Pronko’s latest mystery set in Japan is due to hit the shelves, there’s some creepiness on the way from SJI Holliday and Mark Dawson, who went…

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Innocent: New TV drama from the pen of MJ Arlidge

By DeathBecomesHer

11 May, 2018

He cut his writing teeth on screenplays for the likes of crime serials Torn, The Little House and Silent Witness before creating the popular DI Helen Grace series of books, now MJ Arlidge’s work is back on the small screen. Unlike television adaptations of the likes…

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On the Radar: New Japanese crime fiction, and more

On the Radar: New German crime fiction, and more

A Gift for Dying

Interview: MJ Arlidge

A crime book is a gift you give yourself

Morecambe & Vice 2018 - a festival of crime writing and hidden talents

Indie authors make their move

Innocent: New TV drama from the pen of MJ Arlidge

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