Always more to learn! -- Joy Kluver
Having written three police procedural books, and watched copious amounts of 24 Hours in Police Custody and 999 What's Your Emergency? , I've learned a fair amount about policing and what happens in the first few days of an investigation. But there's always more to learn. I'm currently in the middle of a four-week writing course run by Graham Bartlett, a former Chief Superintendent with Sussex Police. In his time on the force, he's been a beat PC, a detective, and then in charge of policing in Brighton. To say he has a lot of experience is an understatement. He's an advisor to authors such as Peter James and Elly Griffiths and has recently had two fiction books of his own published. Graham understands the balance between authenticity and adrenalin-pumping drama. Still, as we all know, if the errors are glaringly obvious, we're likely to shut the book or turn off the TV. For the course, Graham gives us the scene and it's up to us to interpret it. We dec...