Five authors from three genres discuss why they write, why they came together and what the future holds for their (currently) all female collective Gillian Hamer What was it about crime writing that appealed to you? It was crime ‘reading’ that first appealed from a very early age. I read every Famous Five and Secret Seven book in the village library. Then I moved onto Nancy Drew … and finally Agatha Christie. I think it was the pace and tension…