Historical Crime Fiction

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I live in Bern, the capital of Switzerland, which has a magnificent medieval core, and I'm currently working on the fourth mystery in my Polizei Bern series, which is set in and around the city's Gothic church, the Berner Münster.

At first glimpse, memoir and historical fiction may seem worlds apart. But many of the decisions historical novelists have to make to create a compelling narrative overlap with memoir more than you'd think-especially for writers of biographical historical fiction.

I write a historical fiction series set in World War Two London. My protagonist is a Scotland Yard detective called Frank Merlin. I place great importance on being historically accurate in my books. I take the view that as I am attempting to transport my readers to a very different time and place, accuracy is a key element to doing that successfully.  Read more

The two most common questions I've been asked about my new book, Uncanny Times, is "why historical fantasy" and "why this particular time period?"  Read more