The lies men tell
As far as David Bishop is concerned, he’s always been a crime writer; he’s just spent the past few decades writing other stories before he got to his “debut crime novel”.
“Crime is a brilliant narrative engine, which is why it underpins so many other genres,” says Bishop, who lives in Scotland after first spreading his wings from Aotearoa to London a little over 30 years ago. “I’ve always been drawn to read and write stories with a mystery element.
“When I was screenwriting episodes of the BBC medical drama , my stories always had mystery at their heart. The same is true when I wrote issues of the comic or audiobooks. The only surprise is it has taken me this long to write a crime novel, rather than hiding my
