Thomas Mogford

Thoroughly enjoying watching ‘Big Little Lies’ at the moment – I feel it’s ideally savoured with a mild hangover, just to intensify the dark strands running through it. After observing both my wife and mum avidly reading ‘The Dry’ over the summer holidays, and having just heard that ‘The Cry’ has been green-lit as a […]

There’s a lot to be said for celebrating your favourite fictional sleuth through the medium of food and drink. My wife and I spent part of our honeymoon on the Orient Express, sipping dainty little glasses of crème de menthe in homage to Hercule Poirot, gazing about the dining car and wondering which of our […]

I’m a firm believer in the Latin phrase, ‘Solvitur ambulando’; ‘It solves itself by walking’. Whenever I get stuck on a tricky bit of plotting, I close down my computer and step out onto the streets of Battersea. I tend to take the same route each time, one that’s specially devised to get a crimewriter’s […]

A thrill to appear in The Sunday Times last weekend, not least because it’s a paper my parents actually read. That said, they completely missed the review (below), and I had to phone them with a minor nudge on Sunday evening. When it comes to parental pride, we’re all just big kids, really…