Araminta Hall

Jan 16, 2024 | ocregister.com | Maren Longbella |Araminta Hall

By Maren Longbella, Star TribuneThe only thing cozy about British writer Araminta Hall is her name. No lush English garden mystery for her. No table set for tea — well sugared, of course — in delicate floral cups and saucers, beside plated scones or biscuits that snap when bitten. A truer picture of her work, as well as of her latest psychological thriller, “One of the Good Guys,” is a bleak, windswept landscape crumbling into a churning sea, with looming dread and the threat of violence.

Jan 16, 2024 | crimereads.com | Araminta Hall

We all thought everything was going to change didn’t we? There was a moment back there, when more and more women started standing up and saying, ‘yeah it’s happened to me too’, when Harvey Weinstein went to prison, when women starting talking publicly about what it’s actually like for us to exist in a man’s world, when marches happened, when the media got behind the hashtag. But, let’s be honest, when you look at your life and the life of the women you love, fundamentally what has really changed?

Jan 11, 2024 | sheerluxe.com | Heather Steele |Araminta Hall

I’m re-reading one of my favourites, Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince. I used to feel bizarrely guilty when I re-read books, but I read an interview with a writer (I think was Jeanette Winterson) who said you’d never look at a painting you love once or only listen to a brilliant song once, so why should books be any different. That said, I am looking forward to lots on my ‘to read list’ right now including new books by Harriet Tyce and Abigail Dean, as well as Kill Show by Daniel Sweren-Becker.

Jan 9, 2024 | arcamax.com | Araminta Hall

The only thing cozy about British writer Araminta Hall is her name. No lush English garden mystery for her. No table set for tea — well sugared, of course — in delicate floral cups and saucers, beside plated scones or biscuits that snap when bitten. A truer picture of her work, as well as of her latest psychological thriller, "One of the Good Guys," is a bleak, windswept landscape crumbling into a churning sea, with looming dread and the threat of violence.

Jan 7, 2024 | writing.ie | Araminta Hall

Author Araminta Hall on the slow burn inspiration behind her timely new thriller, One of the Good Guys. Writers are often asked where they get their ideas and the answers can be fascinating – an overheard conversation, a newspaper headline, a chance encounter, a painting. Someone once told me they’d come up with a whole novel from seeing a crisp packet with a what looked like a note in it blowing along a street. One of the Good Guys didn’t have a specific starting point for me.