Kill Me Twice

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Writing Kill Me Twice: When the Setting Becomes the Character

Some ideas arrive with a complete set of instructions. This wasn’t one of those.

What I had, at the start, was a skeleton — barely even that. Hard-boiled detective fiction. Liverpool. A protagonist who was damaged in the specific way that interesting protagonists tend to be damaged: not heroically, not cinematically, but in the grinding, managed way of someone carrying injuries that haven’t healed and probably won’t. An ex-cop doing PI work above a bookmaker’s in Kensington. The bones of something, waiting for the thing that would make it worth writing.

Thriller on Paul Green

Kill Me Twice

Writing Kill Me Twice: When the Setting Becomes the Character