Peter Stewart

So it is easier for you and it's faster, but also it's more authentic for the people who are reading it if they know the area. And if they don't, it doesn't matter anyway.

So it is easier for you and it's faster, but also it's more authentic for the people who are reading it if they know the area. And if they don't, it doesn't matter anyway.

Or you've never got anything wrong, I guess.

Or you've never got anything wrong, I guess.

And also you've got a problem, haven't you, that it makes things a bit more tricky if it's a murder mystery and you want to build something in that actually doesn't exist. then you can't actually put it in. If you've got a mythical town, you can suddenly invent a railway bridge, for example. But you can't in Rygate if that bridge doesn't exist where you want it to be.

And also you've got a problem, haven't you, that it makes things a bit more tricky if it's a murder mystery and you want to build something in that actually doesn't exist. then you can't actually put it in. If you've got a mythical town, you can suddenly invent a railway bridge, for example. But you can't in Rygate if that bridge doesn't exist where you want it to be.

So you described a few moments ago about that chase that starts off at Marks and Spencer's, goes down to their delivery area, doesn't it? As though going down to the park. But we're not on the High Street now, are we? We're actually up at the Castle Grounds.

So you described a few moments ago about that chase that starts off at Marks and Spencer's, goes down to their delivery area, doesn't it? As though going down to the park. But we're not on the High Street now, are we? We're actually up at the Castle Grounds.

Now, you and I first met, although we didn't realise it at the time, at the Rygate Priory Lawn Tennis Club, didn't we? Is that featured?

Now, you and I first met, although we didn't realise it at the time, at the Rygate Priory Lawn Tennis Club, didn't we? Is that featured?

Which bit are you laughing at? The fact that I'm featured or the fact that I'm calling myself young and handsome?

Which bit are you laughing at? The fact that I'm featured or the fact that I'm calling myself young and handsome?

He was a kind of radio detective, wasn't he, on BBC One in the 1980s. Trevor Reeve? Trevor Reeve, yeah. Seriously, I'm not that old. I must have watched the reruns or something. That was it.

He was a kind of radio detective, wasn't he, on BBC One in the 1980s. Trevor Reeve? Trevor Reeve, yeah. Seriously, I'm not that old. I must have watched the reruns or something. That was it.

the cliffhangers at the end of chapters and so on you've got to make sure everything ties together at the end of the book so I'm imagining a wall at home in your office full of post-it notes and and those kind of those bits of string like they have on detective shows on the tv going from one post-it note to another and lots of photographs and maps

the cliffhangers at the end of chapters and so on you've got to make sure everything ties together at the end of the book so I'm imagining a wall at home in your office full of post-it notes and and those kind of those bits of string like they have on detective shows on the tv going from one post-it note to another and lots of photographs and maps

And then presumably work out that main thread of what happens and who did it and why and what the denouement is. You see, I know these words. I did A-level English. And then you put in the red herrings after that because they've obviously got a shorter lifespan, haven't they?

And then presumably work out that main thread of what happens and who did it and why and what the denouement is. You see, I know these words. I did A-level English. And then you put in the red herrings after that because they've obviously got a shorter lifespan, haven't they?

And then do you have someone else to kind of proofread it in case they say, well, hold on, you said in chapter two that they were wearing a yellow hat and actually in chapter 17 it turns out to be a blue hat.

And then do you have someone else to kind of proofread it in case they say, well, hold on, you said in chapter two that they were wearing a yellow hat and actually in chapter 17 it turns out to be a blue hat.