Jeremy Craddock

England

Journalist, Writer and Lecturer at Freelance

Journalist | author | lecturer at Man Met Uni. Books: The Jigsaw Murders + The Lady in the Lake. Agent: @JoannaSwainson TV/film: @SoloSonUk

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Articles

Lady in the lake murder: Why reporter has returned to the crime 27 years on

Dec 23, 2024 | pressgazette.co.uk | Jeremy Craddock

On a warm summer day, three amateur divers broke the surface of Coniston Water in Cumbria, pulling behind them a canvas package trussed up with rope. The package was heavy but they managed to drag it ashore. With a knife, one of the divers cut through the canvas cover. Pieces of lead fell out. The men recoiled. Inside was a body. That evening, detectives stood on the edge of the lake. The crime scene was illuminated by high-powered lamps. They peered down at the grim remains of a young woman.
The Lady in the Lake

Nov 1, 2024 | audible.co.uk | Jeremy Craddock

A body in a lake. A wife missing for 21 years. A husband's denial of murder. A crime reporter who was there revisits the shocking crime 25 years on. The Lady in the Lake is a real-life murder mystery and true crime memoir that flows like a thriller. A dark secret resurfaces after 21 years in the English Lake District to devastate a family. With powerful themes of murder and denial, the story spans five decades, from the 1970s to the present day.
The Lady in the Lake

Oct 10, 2024 | jeremycraddock.substack.com | Jeremy Craddock

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The Lady in the Lake by Jeremy Craddock

Oct 10, 2024 | l8r.it | Jeremy Craddock |Chris Cook |Sara Gay Forden |Monica Allan

LoveReading Says About Author LoveReading Says Written by one of the first journalists on the case, Jeremy Craddock’s true crime tome, The Lady in the Lake, reads like a gripping murder-mystery thriller. As for the case, in summer 1991, divers discovered a suspicious package in Coniston Water in the Lake District.
The business-end of writing

Oct 8, 2024 | jeremycraddock.substack.com | Jeremy Craddock

The A-B-C of Writing True Stories is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. My new book is out this week. It’s exciting. I really don’t know what impact, if any, it’s going to make. Like my first book, it’s true crime, but unlike that earlier publication (about an Agatha Christie-era double murder), this one is about a murder case that I reported on as a reporter early in my career.
ONE FROM THE ARCHIVES

Feb 18, 2024 | jeremycraddock.substack.com | Jeremy Craddock

As I’m into the final stages of writing my new book, this week I’m going to replay one of the paywalled newsletters from last year and give it to all subscribers as a thank you for all your support…The A-B-C of Writing True Stories is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I was deep into writing my true crime book The Jigsaw Murders. It was early 2020 and I had six or seven months until my deadline.
A-B-C Midweek Bitesize: Write even when you feel rotten

Feb 14, 2024 | jeremycraddock.substack.com | Jeremy Craddock

Don’t come too close this week. I’m full of cold!I might be coughing and sneezing and feeling rotten, but I’m here to bring you this A-B-C Midweek Bitesize edition. It’s going to be brief, but I have learned over many years of writing that even if you’re not feeling great, you need to turn up. Even if you write only a paragraph and then return to bed…Keeping up the momentum is vital. I’m into the final hurdle with my new book.
Words of wisdom: letters from famous authors

Feb 11, 2024 | jeremycraddock.substack.com | Jeremy Craddock

The A-B-C of Writing True Stories is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I’ve known I wanted to be a writer since I was very little. And from an equally young age I’ve met famous authors, encounters that forged my desire to become an author myself. At school we had regular visits by poets and children’s authors. Many were known only locally; some had higher profiles.
Postman Pat creator John Cunliffe and Alfred Wainwright

Feb 8, 2024 | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Jeremy Craddock

One day I was browsing the online sales catalogue of a rare books seller and chanced upon a used set of Wainwright’s Lake District guides. The eight books had a price tag of £275. At first glance this seemed expensive but then I realised they had belonged to another famous Lake District author. They were the copies that had once belonged to the late Postman Pat creator John Cunliffe and included his personal annotations.
A-B-C Midweek Bitesize: One Life

Feb 7, 2024 | jeremycraddock.substack.com | Jeremy Craddock

Hello and welcome to this week’s A-B-C Midweek Bitesize. It’s a short one — a film recommendation. Go and see One Life. It’s the true story of Nicholas Winton, a 29-year-old London stockbroker whose efforts helped to save hundreds and hundreds of Jewish children to escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939. It is one of the most powerful, emotional films I’ve ever seen.