Interesting Crime Fiction Authors
Crime fiction is the genre of fiction which refers to crimes, the detection of crimes and criminals who carry out the crime and the motives of criminals behind committing a crime. One can say that most of the crime novels share the same structure, not all of them but most of them consider the same pattern. First of all, there is a crime for instance a murder, then a whole procedure of investigation of how that criminal act took place, and then finally the concluding part which is the judgement, mostly novels conclude it as arrest of the criminal or he/she dies.
The crime fiction revolves around a criminal act, but the main focus is the investigation that is done by the main character of the story such as a professional or amateur detective. There are less chances of featuring a court room in a crime fiction, it rather focuses on mystery and suspense.
Calling All Story lovers!!!
Now short story telling is an art and even writing them takes a bit of practice to get to the core message and central focus, working within a tight framework. So, I thought I would invite you to share in my next big endeavour. This will take place in two parts-so if you are a writer but enjoy curling up by the fire with a hot cupper and enjoy a nice story, I would love to invite you to become a Happy London Story Maker.
Well what might this be I hear you say....well let me explain some more. We want to create a short story competition and make a beautiful creative hardback book of short stories with contemporary photographs. And in order to make sure every entry has been fairy read and rated, we need volunteer readers to pre-select and short list a number of stories for the judges to choose the finalists.
We would like to invite you to become a Happy London Story Maker (unless you want to wait a while and submit an entry into the competition). So here is the plan and what to do;
We will shortly be launching a short story competition and we need lots of enthusiastic story lovers to become our preliminary judges. If you enjoy reading imaginative and different short stories, and don't mind giving up some of your time to read something in the region of around 20 stories at a time, then give them a score rating of their appeal, we would love to hear from you.
Each story will be up to 800 to 1000 words long. Good clean fiction. All you need to do to get involved is sign up and register to become a HappyLdn Story Maker.
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History of crime in London...
In the 1850’s and 1860’s, street robbery was its peak and was referred as “garroting” back then. Then comes the murders by Jack The Ripper, which happened in the year 1888 in the season of autumn. Petty thefts used to take place on the daily basis, and normally the offenders were young males. The common type of crime committed by women were related to prostitution, the crimes reported against women were mostly being drunk, vagrancy etc. Domestic violence was hardly reported or brought in front of the court for proceedings. As the crimes related to domestic violence’s were taking place in private sphere, it was not reported as such because nobody wanted to put their family reputation at stake.
Talking in the context of Victoria’s reign, the capital punishments were only given to the traitors and murderers. Reformation was more focused; the prisoners were treated in isolation or silence in the 1830s 1840s. They were left alone to learn, in isolation to explore their thoughts with their bibles, they were made to work and occasional visits by the chaplain were provided to them. The penal policies started to change because of Victorian liberal thoughts, doctors and psychiatrist made their way to the jails in order to pay a visit to the criminals for rehabilitation.
In the last few years of the century, there was only one thing that made its way to England and that was Sherlock Holmes. Who was put before the reading community back in the year 1887, it was something so true to the already existent perceptions. Holmes was someone who solved his cases using his intellect.
Crime Fiction Authors...
If we go back in history, then in the 1930’s-1940’s the first name that comes in to the mind is Arthur Alexander Gordon Clark who is also known British County Court Judge published a number of novels that were full of crime fiction under the alias Cyril Hare in which he utilized his own legal knowledge of English Legal system. When he was not known and in his young age, the award-winning British novelist named as Julian Barnes was known to publish some amazing crime fiction novels under the alias Dan Kavanagh.
If you are not aware of Christie’s work in crime fiction then you are missing something huge, her work specifically features detective Hercules Poirot or Miss Jane Marple. She is known by the title of “Queen of Crime” and this is something that made her the most innovation writers of all time, and her work contributed to the development of crime fiction. Her most popular novels are Murder on the Orient Express 1934, And Then There Were None (1939), Death of the Nile (1937). The world’s bestselling mystery is And Then There Were None.
Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad is worth a read as well, but if we talk about Agatha Christie we forget all of the other writers. And, if you are one of those people that consider Harry potter series as a crime fiction or mystery then we would like to count on J.K Rowling because she holds the credit of being one of the best mystery writers and her name will be written in the history.
Authors And Their Stories…
Stuart MacBride:
He is known for writing the authentic detective Logan McRae, his writings are full of suspense, mystery and tension and that’s exactly what you need in a crime fiction but his writing comes with a dark humour too. His novels are full of emotions, if we talk about his debut novel “Cold Granite” that is also known because of winning Barry Award. He was also awarded the dagger in the library back in the year 2007 by the Crime Writers Association.
Peter James:
He is known to the world because of his Roy Grace novels, if you are not aware of his achievements then you should know that his novels have achieved seven UK Sunday Times #1s in a row. He has been awarded for his efforts multiple times and many of his writing made to the TV and Stage. His writings are mostly focused on supernatural elements. There are plot-twists, the characters will stay in your head because there is too much suspense. He has been the chairman of UK Crime Writers Association twice and currently he is serving as the Overseas Vice-President of International Thriller Writers in the USA.
James Patterson:
He is one of the prominent names in the modern literature and 300 million copies of his books have been sold over the year that is obviously a Guinness World Record and also a New York Times record of bestselling crime fiction novels. He has been collaborating with other authors too, but his most known series is the Alex cross novels, Women’s Murder Club Series and Michael Bennett.
Val MacDiarmid:
The suspense novels that as referred as Tartan noir are written by Val McDermid and she is known for the best detective characters such as Dr. Tony, Lyndsay Gordon and Kate Brannigan. There is no doubt that her work is full of dark sides, graphic content but she is someone who portrays the reality of crime.
The Lyme
Regis Murders
by author
Andrew Segal
Three little piggies going to market each,
Changed their minds, went down to the beach.
A great big rock then cracked each head,
And, left the three of them, all stone dead. R.A.
Three found dead, throwing a quiet seaside town into turmoil.
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The shoreline was deserted apart from the four individuals cavorting close to the water’s edge. A single gull
wheeled overhead screaming out what might have been a warning, had anyone understood, or been prepared to listen. Offshore the swell rose and fell ominously, a restless movement like the bulk of a heaving whale, as it too whispered a plea for mercy.
wheeled overhead screaming out what might have been a warning, had anyone understood, or been prepared to listen. Offshore the swell rose and fell ominously, a restless movement like the bulk of a heaving whale, as it too whispered a plea for mercy.
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