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Four reasons to write your crime novel in Kent from authors of The Whitstable Pearl, Salt Lane, Smile of the Stowaway and This Nowhere Place
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Updated: 12:18, 24 February 2021
Crime novels have been moving south in recent years, depicting the beaches and towns of Kent as part of a mysterious underworld.
But why?
Sophie Bird spoke to four writers of novels set in the county to find out what makes Kent the new fictitious crime capital.
Every setting a writer needs all in one county I was looking for a place which would be as big a character in the story as the people, says William Shaw.
Oceans HELL-even: Aerial shots reveal rising river creeping towards George and Amal Clooney s £12m mansion in flood-hit Berkshire village
The 17th-century, Grade II-listed mansion in the celebrity haunt of Sonning is located on an island in the river
Photos taken today showed large pool of floodwater on lawn nearest to the boundary with the River Thames
The Hollywood star and high-profile human rights lawyer moved into secluded home with their twins in 2016