I do hope you have all enjoyed your long weekend and found plenty of time to read …. particularly those who received giveaway copies of R N Morris’s latest release a couple of weeks ago.
Have you all got plenty of questions to ask the author? Yes? Good, because now is the time to ask them!
Even if you haven’t read any of Morris’s work, you may wish to join in on this one. After all crime writing is such a hugely popular genre these days. You may wish to take a look at my reviews of this series here and here.
I’ll leave this post up for a week or so before sending the questions off to the author.
I’ll going to start us off with something easy – why Dostoevsky and not Tolstoy?
Imperium - Christian Kracht
My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
Summerhouse, Later - Judith Hermann
When the Professor Who Got Stuck in the Snow - Dan Rhodes
Passenger 23
The Book of St Andrews
Pure - Andrew Miller
The Man in the High Castle - Philipp K Dick
A Doppelganger with Aquis Submersus - Theodor Storm
Confusion - Stefan Zweig
The Rain Maiden and Other Fairy Tales - Theodor Storm
The Last Bear - Mandy Haggith
Faust - A Tragedy in Two Parts - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Emperor of Ice-Cream - Dan Gunn
Whispering Shadows - Jan Philipp Sendker
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin - Georges Simenon
On Glasgow and Edinburgh - Robert Crawford
Jellyfish - Janice Galloway
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Alice In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
The Dark Heart of the Night - Leonora Miano
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
Viper Wine - Hermione Eyre
The Girl on The Train - Paula Hawkins
Wallenstein - Friedrich Schiller
In the Beginning was the Sea -Thomas Gonzalez
Munich Airport - Greg Baxter
Rise - Karen Campbell
The Lie - Helen Dunmore
Crime Novel - Petri Tamminen
A Tabby Cat's Tale - Han Dong 
Family Heirlooms - Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares 
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
The Franchise Affair - Josephine Tey 
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen 
Glass - Alex Christoffi 
The Miniaturist - Jesse Burton 
The Temporary Gentleman - Sebastian Barry 
Under The Tripoli Sky - Kamal Ben Hamada
The Blue Room - Hanne Orstavik 
Greenbanks - Dorothy Whipple 
Losing It! - Helen Lederer (2015)
The Pierced Heart - Lynn Shepherd (2014)
The Sound of Things Falling - Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Mr Mac and Me - Esther Freud
The Monogram Murders - Sophie Hannah
The Death of Lomond Friel - Sue Peebles
The Unknown Unknown - Mark Forsyth
The Bookshop Strikes Back - Ann Patchett
The Leipzig Affair - Fiona Rintoul
A Child's Garden of Verses - R L Stevenson
The Dark Meadow - Andrea Maria Schenkel
The Flying Classroom - Erich Kästner
The Case of The Black Pearl - Lin Anderson
Picnic of The Virtues - Felicitas Hoppe
Little Man, What Now? - Hans Fallada
Look Up Glasgow (Pocket edition) - Adrian Seale (2014)
Absolution - Patrick Flanery (2012)
I Murdered My Library - Linda Grant (2014)
The Yellow Dog - Georges Simenon (1931/2014)
The Carter of La Providence - Georges Simenon (1931/2014)
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien - Georges Simenon (1931/2014)
Fair Helen - Andrew Greig (2013)
All The Rage - A L Kennedy (2014)
The Mussel Feast - Birgit Vanderbeke (1990/2013)
If you could imagine these in a TV mini-series (hope someone from the powers-at-be is reading this) who would you like to see portray Porfiry?
What a good idea!
Mr. Morris,
A fan of your Porfiry Petrovich series as well as a published writer myself (the first two novels in my Viennese Mystery series came out in 2009 and this year respectively), I would love to do an e-mail interview with you for my blog, Scene of the Crime (http://jsydneyjones.wordpress.com/). The blog focuses on writers with a strong connection to place in their mysteries and thrillers.
Interested? If so I could send off an interview attachment for you to look at. More info on me is found at http://www.jsydneyjones.com/
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Syd
Hello Syd
Thanks for stopping by and pointing me in the direction of your series of books. I shall investigate while I’m waiting for Porfiry Petrovich book 4!
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Hi Roger,
Has Tchaikovsky made an appearance in any of the Porfiry stories yet? If not, why not? Just wondering🙂
Hi! Have just started reading ‘A Razor Wrapped In Silk’ and am enjoying it.
I just wondered how you choose your subject matter for a a novel and if Russia and Russian History is familiar to you??
Hi Roger
How have your recent trips to Russia influenced the creation of the Porfiry series?
When did you first read Crime and Punishment?
There have been over 25 film adaptations of Crime and Punishment. Which is your favourite?
Thanks.
JB
Time to add a few more from me.
1) Assuming that Porfiry was the attraction, and that you weren’t an historical expert before you started on the series, how did you get a handle on the historical setting?
2) Your first novel was a contemporary thriller. What made you switch and what are the main differences between writing contemporary and historical thrillers?
3) How do you guard against anachronisms?
4) I know the fourth Porfiry novel is with your editor. Which Dostoevsky should I read in advance?
5) You originally planned 4 Porfiry novels? Are you sticking to that and if so, what are you going to do next?
6) I’ve still got another year to wait before I get my hands on book 4. Could I ask for 3 recommendations to keep me busy in the meantime?
7) What do you read for pleasure?
8) Will you ever tame your cat?🙂
OK, over to you, Roger. And thanks for agreeing to the interview.