William Shaw On A Life In Crime

It took 30 years and three failed novels, but he’s now one of the rising stars of British crime fiction. Here’s how he writes.

Sheryl Garratt
The Creative Companion
12 min readFeb 28, 2022

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William Shaw on Dungeness Beach. Photo by Kitty Shaw

When I talk to crime novelist William Shaw, he is alone in his writing shack in Devon, on the English coast. It’s an off-grid, wooden building close to the sea but even closer to railway tracks, which…

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Sheryl Garratt
The Creative Companion

Writer; editor; coach, supporting creatives to step up and do their best work — and get paid for it! Find me at www.thecreativelife.net