by SB_2021_Hunter | Aug 13, 2021 | On Writing
Well, that’s it. The final comma’s been checked, the last i’s been dotted and t’s been crossed – metaphorically speaking, of course. This week I finished my read-through and revisions of The Scent of Death’s page proofs, and sent them back off to my publisher. Exactly...
by SB_2021_Hunter | Aug 13, 2021 | On Writing
Before I visited Tennessee’s renowned Body Farm in 2002, I’d never really given forensics much thought. I was making my living working as a freelance journalist, and although I’d already written several novels they were all psychological thrillers. So when I got off...
by SB_2021_Hunter | Aug 13, 2021 | On Writing
When I sat down to start The Chemistry of Death, my first novel to feature British forensic anthropologist David Hunter, it wasn’t with the intention of writing a series. Back then my main concern was writing a good, scary thriller that people would enjoy, and that...
by SB_2021_Hunter | Aug 13, 2021 | On Writing
When Written in Bone, the second novel to feature forensic anthropologist David Hunter, was published, a reader got in touch to ask if I could give him the co-ordinates for Runa, the Hebridean island where the book was set. He was frustrated because he’d been...
by SB_2021_Hunter | Aug 13, 2021 | On Writing
There’s a phrase many writers will have heard at some point in their careers: ‘Write the same again, but different.’ The first time I heard it I can’t say I was impressed. It was only when I thought about it as a reader that I began to see the sense behind it. When we...
by SB_2021_Hunter | Aug 13, 2021 | On Writing
I’ve a confession to make. Although I’m a crime writer, I’ve always had a weakness for a good ghost story. I cut my reading teeth on the likes of Dennis Wheatley and the Pan Book of Horror Stories compilations, now only available as battered relics in second-hand...
