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The Death of a Bollywood Heroine: A Piece by Abir Mukherjee

The Death of a Bollywood Heroine: A Piece by Ab...

Rebecca McDonnell

The Death of a Bollywood Heroine My new novel, The Pinnacle, revolves around the murder of Sweety Sahota, a fictional Indian actress and the Queen of Bollywood. While the book...

Rebecca McDonnell

The Death of a Bollywood Heroine: A Piece by Ab...

The Death of a Bollywood Heroine My new novel, The Pinnacle, revolves around the murder of Sweety Sahota, a fictional Indian actress and the Queen of Bollywood. While the book...

The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani: An Extract

The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani: An Extract

Rebecca McDonnell

They’d cut his clothes off him. While he was laying on a bed in the ER, while they checked him, while they ran fluids into his arm and took blood...

Rebecca McDonnell

The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani: An Extract

They’d cut his clothes off him. While he was laying on a bed in the ER, while they checked him, while they ran fluids into his arm and took blood...

Octagon (May 2026): A Letter from C.J. Merritt

Octagon (May 2026): A Letter from C.J. Merritt

Rebecca McDonnell

Dear Goldsboro Crime Collective reader, I’m delighted that you will be receiving my new thriller Octagon as your GCC pick for May, particularly as it’s a Goldsboro special edition with...

Rebecca McDonnell

Octagon (May 2026): A Letter from C.J. Merritt

Dear Goldsboro Crime Collective reader, I’m delighted that you will be receiving my new thriller Octagon as your GCC pick for May, particularly as it’s a Goldsboro special edition with...

A Plot to Die For: A Q&A with Ardal O’Hanlon

A Plot to Die For: A Q&A with Ardal O’Hanlon

Rebecca McDonnell

Q1. How did you approach balancing humour with darker themes like murder and mystery? My two previous novels were both darkly funny but bleak with underlying serious themes. With A...

Rebecca McDonnell

A Plot to Die For: A Q&A with Ardal O’Hanlon

Q1. How did you approach balancing humour with darker themes like murder and mystery? My two previous novels were both darkly funny but bleak with underlying serious themes. With A...

Last One Out: A Q&A with Jane Harper

Last One Out: A Q&A with Jane Harper

Rebecca McDonnell

  What made you set Last One Out as a small-town mystery? Is there something that intrigues you about this environment? The setting in Last One Out was built around...

Rebecca McDonnell

Last One Out: A Q&A with Jane Harper

  What made you set Last One Out as a small-town mystery? Is there something that intrigues you about this environment? The setting in Last One Out was built around...

A Degree of Murder by Maz Evans: An Extract

A Degree of Murder by Maz Evans: An Extract

Rebecca McDonnell

Read an extract from Maz Evan's latest novel, A Degree of Murder - available for preorder here Bill  2000  At 6.13pm on 4 July 2000, a glass of fizz in one...

Rebecca McDonnell

A Degree of Murder by Maz Evans: An Extract

Read an extract from Maz Evan's latest novel, A Degree of Murder - available for preorder here Bill  2000  At 6.13pm on 4 July 2000, a glass of fizz in one...