Author Archives: rossalexwriter

At the end of last year, I had the idea to try and read the alphabet in authors. As the thought grew, I decided it would be fun if they were all crime writers. A quick internet search confirmed that it was possible and thus began my journey. I felt that this would give meContinue reading “My 2021 A-Z Of Crimewriters (Includes my Book of the Year)”

A return to book/writing subject matter this month with a blog about ‘Book Pimpage’. Now before I begin, I must credit the title of this blog to the very excellent Mark Billingham who mentioned it in a recent tweet and I thought that it was the best writer’s expression in the history of Twitter. HeContinue reading “Book Pimpage”

For this month’s blog, I wanted to pay tribute to the Crime Drama sidekick. Before I begin my countdown and wanted to touch on some of my own thoughts for these characters and my considerations when I was writing my own crime novels and how these sidekick(s) would be part of the stories. In theContinue reading “Top Ten Crime Drama Sidekicks”

I’ve done a few posts with a ‘Desert Island’ theme and thought I would move onto Crime Drama Boxsets for my latest blog. Most of these are British and European crime dramas, which is the bulk of what I watch. I find many American series tend to go on too long and lose their impact.Continue reading “Desert Island Crime Drama Boxsets”

For those who do not know my geographical background, I was born and raised in the West of Scotland before moving to Edinburgh in 2005. When I started writing, around 2011, I knew that my books would be set in Scotland’s beautiful capital city. So much has been been written about Edinburgh and some ofContinue reading “Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello East Lothian”

Before I introduce who Alexander Simpson is, I need to take you back to the very start of my writing journey… The year was 2011 and I was reading a lot of crime novels and watching a large amount of crime drama. I had toyed with the idea of writing a book, much in theContinue reading “Introducing ‘Alexander Simpson’”

One thing that is common amongst most crime writers is a character series. Even more common is that the most successful crime writers have a tendency to have multiple character series, going back to the time of Dame Agatha Christie with Poirot and Marple to modern day writers such as Val McDermid, James Oswald andContinue reading “Who is Detective Inspector Joanne Christie?”

For the latest in my series of ‘Desert Island’ blogs, I have decided to choose 8 cars that have featured in British Crime Dramas on the television (so Magnum PI’s Ferrari is off the list). Some of the cars may differ from what the crime writers wrote in their novels, however, I have chosen theContinue reading “Desert Island Crime Drama Cars”

Following my last blog when I chose my favourite crime novels, I decided to do the same with my other passion – guitars. I had a bit of fun on Twitter recently when I asked some people if they could have any other guitarist’s guitar, which and whose would they pick. I got some repliesContinue reading “Desert Island Guitars”