Margaret Murphy talks to crime authors Elly Griffiths and Rhiannon Ward about the gothic in crime, from Poe and Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, and explore the popularity of gothic elements in modern crime fiction. What makes the weird and spooky in gothic crime so attractive to modern readers? Video recorded at Perfect Crime UK 2020. Get DON’T […]
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Join Margaret Murphy for a privileged glimpse of the emotional, funny – and hair-raising(!) – stories behind the stories of psychological suspense writers Jane Corry and Amanda Brooke. How do writers get inside the mind of a murderer? How does research inform their creation of damaged mentalities, or even psychopaths? Recorded at Perfect Crime UK, November 2020 Get
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It was my privilege and pleasure to be interviewed by Jacky Collins (Dr Noir) on her YouTube channel about Murder Squad and my varied life in writing. We covered the portrayal of violence against women, touching on my own experience of violence and how it fuelled my fascination for psychology and psychopathology. Our chat ranged
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