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'Writing first Miss Marple novel in 50 years I had to follow 2 strict rules' (opens the original)
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Author Lucy Foley has revealed there were two cast iron rules she was told not to break when writing the first new Miss Marple novel for 50 years – she could not make the sleuth younger or give her a love interest. The bestselling writer of modern ‘locked room’ thrillers The Hunting Party and The Guest List was entrusted by the estate of her creator, the late Agatha Christie, to dust off the elderly spinster best known for solving devious crimes in the fictional village of St Mary Mead. The resu
I've written the first Miss Marple novel in 50 years - but I had to follow 2 strict rules - AOL (opens the original)
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Author Lucy Foley has revealed there were two cast iron rules she was told not to break when writing the first new Miss Marple novel for 50 years - she could not make the sleuth younger or give her a love interest. The bestselling writer of modern 'locked room' thrillers The Hunting Party and The Guest List was entrusted by the estate of her creator, the late Agatha Christie, to dust off the elderly spinster best known for solving devious crimes in the fictional village of St Mary Mead. The resu
From Lidl to literary fame - Frances Crawford's journey to winning top award (opens the original)
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Rags-to-riches author Frances Crawford says no one would believe her personal story if she had written it as a novel. After “really struggling” for decades with a muscular disease that left her largely unable to work and struggling to pay for heating and food, landing a book deal for her debut novel A Bad Bad Place changed her life. At the same time the Scottish writer, 64, was offered a new trial drug on the NHS that has transformed her health in the same way that the book deal has transformed
Rags to riches author achieves a world first for her masterpiece novel - AOL (opens the original)
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A writer who could only afford wonky carrots before a book deal changed her life swept the board of prizes at Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival last night. Frances Crawford, 64, is the first author to win both The Bloody Scotland Debut Prize and the McIlvanney Prize, for Scotland's best crime book, in the same year for her novel A Bad, Bad Place, a gritty and heartfelt thriller set in 1970s Glasgow about the far-reaching effects of murder on a community. It is set in Possilpar
Rags to riches author achieves a world first for her masterpiece novel (opens the original)
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A writer who could only afford wonky carrots before a book deal changed her life swept the board of prizes at Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival last night. Frances Crawford, 64, is the first author to win both The Bloody Scotland Debut Prize and the McIlvanney Prize, for Scotland’s best crime book, in the same year for her novel A Bad, Bad Place, a gritty and heartfelt thriller set in 1970s Glasgow about the far-reaching effects of murder on a community. You agree you are 18 o
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