Canongate, ISBN-13: 978-1-78689-376-5 A Costa Award winner, Kidd has been nominated for many more, and judging by Things in Jars, the accolades are well-deserved. She clearly delights in the written word—its rhythms, cadence and music, and her audacious playfulness with language bring to mind Dylan Thomas and Charles Dickens. Her exuberant prose conjures up the filth […]
The good folk at Crime Reads asked Team Dyer to write about our favourite serial killer novel. Here’s what we said: Crime Reads The Cutting Room is available at all these USA outlets and at AmazonUK
Strand Magazine invited Ashley Dyer to write about Serial Killers in Fact & Fiction. Read our take on real and fictional serial killers, including Dennis Nilsen and The Yorkshire Ripper in fact, and Hannibal Lecter, Dexter Morgan and The Bone Collector in fiction: Strand Magazine. The Cutting Room is available at AmazonUK and at all these USA outlets
It’s a challenge to turn to p 69 of your novel, and assess if it is representative of the rest of the book. I accepted the challenge for The Cutting Room, book 2 in the Carver & Lake series: it covered a murder, synaesthesia, and increased gamma brain waves in the dying brain. Click through […]
In this audio interview, Ashley Dyer chats with BBC Radio Merseyside’s Jermaine Foster about growing up in Liverpool, defying her strict Roman Catholic family expectations to go to university, later becoming a crime novelist, and now writing serial killer novels set in her home town, Liverpool. How she became founder of Murder Squad, breaking rules […]
With The Cutting Room newly published, Ashley Dyer discusses serial murder, murder as art, the ethics of “bioart”, and the way that anonymity in social media allows people sneaky licence to become complicit in crimes. For the full interview, go to the International Thriller Writers’ Big Thrill Kindle Big Deal Promotion on The Cutting Room: […]
Detective Inspector Carver lies near death—shot in the chest. A woman stands over him—she has a gun in her hand. Carver has been investigating the Thorn Killer murders for almost a year—a killer who tattoos his victims over a period of days or weeks, using an ancient and excruciatingly painful method called “thorn tapping”. As […]
St Martin’s Press ISBN-10: 1250121345 How did actors metamorphose from uncredited players in silent ‘flickers’ to become powerful movers and shakers in politics? Apparently, it all began in the 1920s with the very first celebrity movie stars. Nancie Clare charts the development of Beverly Hills from marginal rancho land to glamorous enclave for Hollywood stars. It […]