Cathie Dunn writes...

Congratulations to author Catriona King who today celebrates the release of The Visitor , the latest novel in a gripping new 5* crime series. The Visitor  is book three in the modern D.C.I. Craig detective series. It takes Craig and his team into a dark world of cruelty and death, in a place where people most expect to be safe. Things develop for Craig's team in good and bad ways, while Northern Ireland is stalked by a killer intent on revenge. Blurb: Belfast is in danger.  Murder in a closed Belfast world where evil goes undetected; where caring people have uncaring intentions.  People should be safe in this place. They shouldn’t die unexpectedly. D.C.I. Marc Craig and his team hunt across Belfast for a psychotic killer who targets the vulnerable and leaves their children to pay.  The Visitor.  The third in the D.C.I. Craig detective series.  ~~~ Excerpt: The room was in darkness when Evie woke, hearing a noise out in the corridor. ...

Today, the spotlight is on a brand new name on the crime writing scene. Author Catriona King has just released A Limited Justice , the first in a gripping, new detective series set in 21st century Belfast. Her protagonist, D.C.I. Marc Craig, has his job cut out over a murder, then another - and another! The second in the series, The Grass Tattoo , is due out in December 2012.  Catriona's work background is fascinating - she worked as a Forensic Medical Examiner - so I wanted to share some details here. Welcome, Catriona! 1. What inspired DCI Craig, and the detective series, set in Belfast that began with ‘A Limited Justice’? I’ve always loved watching detective stories but I didn’t like single stories. I always wanted to know what happened to the characters next, so I loved series, where you could watch the characters deal with different crimes and develop their own life stories. The best series that I’ve ever read is the Ian Rankin series with his lead detective Jo...