Thomas Mogford

It was like a scene out of a bad techno-movie. Two days before the contractual deadline for Spike Book 4, I opened up the Word file for some last minute tinkering and saw that the letter ‘h’ was not typing properly. Odd, I thought, as the cursor started to blink in a strange, blurry way. Then […]

Alas, the brief for this allowed only five ways to get under the skin of Gibraltar. I wanted to add another ‘crime-writer-undercover’ tip, namely that it’s best to write research notes on your mobile phone — that way people assume you’re sending a particularly long text, rather than jotting down what you see in front of you. […]

While at Crimefest — a convention in Bristol where crime writers and readers meet up and discuss the finer matters of literary blood-letting — I met a man called Jeffrey Siger, who has a brilliant crime series set in Greece, and in particular Mykonos, where he lives ( he’s a lapsed lawyer, he’s got the […]

Here’s an article I contributed to Miles Orchard’s excellent books’ blog, ‘Milo’s Rambles’.  It reveals that HOLLOW MOUNTAIN is not the first novel I’ve written with (roughly) that title… ——————————————————————————————————– Character development – the early years…   I blame Kingsley Amis. In my early twenties, my favourite novel was ‘Lucky Jim’. Drunken escapades, silent fury […]