by Fraser Massey | Mar 19, 2021 | News
Horror writer T. Fox Dunham asked me if I had any true-life ghostly experiences he could use for an episode called Back from the Dead on What Are You Afraid Of? – the Friday night paranormal US radio show he presents with Phil Thomas on PARA-X Radio. It took me...
by Fraser Massey | Mar 4, 2021 | News
Pop quiz. What do Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash and, perhaps more surprisingly, the Tragically Hip all have in common? The answer: All of them have been the inspiration for crime fiction anthologies of short stories based on the titles of...
by Fraser Massey | Feb 13, 2021 | News
My copy of the Coming Through in Waves anthology arrived in the post today, containing my first piece as a published crime fiction author: the short story Have A Cigar. The official launch date was February 15, but Amazon put the paperback version out early, without...
by Fraser Massey | Dec 27, 2020 | News
If you’re making a resolution to read more good crime books in the new year, but are not too sure where to start, I may be able to help. The end of every year is filled with newspaper, magazine and digital critics offering their selections of the best of the year....
by Fraser Massey | Nov 13, 2020 | News
I wrote a piece for the grand-daddy of all the crime fiction blogs The Rap Sheet (which currently receives up to 3,500 hits a day) looking back on this year’s literary awards season to calculate which of the crime fiction novels came out as the big winners. Spoiler...
by Fraser Massey | Jul 18, 2020 | News
The year 2020 marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens. The Dickens’ Fellowship and the Journalists’ Charity (which the great man helped found) chose a number of writers to create a new Dickens character for the 21st century to mark the occasion....