Anya Lipska
BIO: Anya Lipska writes detective thrillers featuring Janusz Kiszka, private eye to London’s Polish community, and East End police detective DC Natalie Kershaw …
Biography
BIO: Anya Lipska writes detective thrillers featuring Janusz Kiszka, private eye to London’s Polish community, and East End police detective DC Natalie Kershaw – a series which led to her being selected for Val McDermid’s New Blood Panel at the 2013 Harrogate Crime Festival. BBC Drama has just optioned the rights to her books for a possible TV series. She is a trained journalist and her day job is producing factual TV documentaries on the arts, history and science topics. Married to a Pole, Lipska lives in East London.
INTERESTS: Anya’s angles & interests include: the importance of ‘place’ in crime fiction, the immigrant – and outsider – viewpoint; European vs UK crime fiction; the importance of research; & women in crime fiction.
Articles by Anya Lipska (9)
The Author Who Knows Too Much: Why Women Have Always Been Crime Fiction's Most Dangerous Voices
There is a question that gets asked of women who write crime fiction, sometimes directly and sometimes in the softer form of a compliment that contains a questi…
The Woman Who Sees Everything — Why the Female Detective Reshaped Crime Fiction From the Inside
There is a moment in nearly every great crime novel featuring a female detective when the investigator is underestimated. Sometimes the underestimation is expli…
Why We Read True Crime — And the Debt We Owe the People Inside It
True crime is the most consumed nonfiction category in the English-speaking world, and it has been for at least a decade. The podcasts regularly dominate downlo…
NOIR Rain, Neon, and No Good Choices: What Noir Is Really Saying
Noir is not a genre. It is a temperature.You feel it in the first paragraph of a Raymond Chandler novel before anything has actually happened — in the quality o…
The Village That Keeps Its Secrets: Why the Closed Circle Mystery Still Dominates
The closed circle mystery has been declared dead so many times that its continued survival has started to look like a deliberate act of defiance.The formula is …
The Detective Who Cannot Go Home: Trauma, Obsession, and the Cost of the Case
There is a question I return to every time I begin a new novel, and it is not about the crime. It is not about the victim, the killer, the method, the motive, o…
Why Mafia Crime Fiction Never Loses Its Grip
Few criminal worlds have shaped modern fiction as decisively as the mafia. Long before television turned mob bosses into household names, novelists and reporter…
Defending Jacob Review: When a Perfect Family Begins to Crack
In a quiet, well-to-do suburb of Boston, a schoolboy is found murdered. The body of 15-year-old Ben, covered in multiple stab wounds, is discovered in a park ne…
Why Motive Matters Even More than Truth in Crime Fiction
An idea for a new book always begins, for me, with a scene. A single moment suspended in the aftermath of violence. However, there was something different about…