The Man of Twists and Turns: The Crime Fiction & Thrillers Podcast

Jasmine Schwartz on Money and Sex: The Man of Twists and Turns Episode 20

Interview with Hot New Crime Fiction Writer

Touching Caravaggio: The Man of Twists and Turns Episode 19

Researching my Caravaggio novel

Behind the Book "A Name in Blood": The Man of Twists and Turns Episode 18

Award-winning crime novelist Matt Rees was on a book tour ...

Award-winning crime novelist Matt Rees was on a book tour in Spain when, visiting a Madrid gallery, he fell for Caravaggio's portrait of St. Catherine of Alexandria. Rees tells the story of how that encounter with Catherine drew him into the work of...

A Reading from my Caravaggio Novel: The Man of Twists and Turns Episode 17

Award-winning crime novelist Matt Rees reads from A Name in ...

Award-winning crime novelist Matt Rees reads from A Name in Blood, his historical crime novel about the great Italian artist Caravaggio. It's Rome, 1605 and the new Cardinal Scipione Borghese views Caravaggio's work alongside the artist's patron,...

Poisonville: Crime Fiction Music

The Man of Twists and Turns Episode 16

My Los Angeles: The Man of Twists and Turns Episode 15

Award-winning crime writer Matt Rees was born in Britain and ...

Award-winning crime writer Matt Rees was born in Britain and lives in the Middle East. But as a lover of noir crime fiction, he's always had a soft spot for the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler and has spent a great deal of time there. A soft spot...

Right Now, You're Gibernau: The Man of Twists and Turns Episode 14

A writer's identity is important to his work. Award-winning crime ...

A writer's identity is important to his work. Award-winning crime writer Matt Rees examines his own amusing confrontations with Italians who questioned his identity...though not as a writer.

The Man of Twists and Turns Episode 13: Crappy Jobs

Before I became a writer, I worked a number of ...

Before I became a writer, I worked a number of crappy jobs. I hauled cement on my back, gleefully destroyed hospitals, ate meat pies, and watched homoerotic wrestling while draining a deep-fat fryer. And got paid badly for all of them. But without...

My Part in Salman Rushdie's Peril: The Man of Twists and Turns 12

When I was a very young journalist in London, I ...

When I was a very young journalist in London, I had the last interview with Salman Rushdie before Khomeini pronounced his fatwa against the writer. Unfortunately I was drunk. He was rude, and so was I. Here's the story of how it happened.

Finding the Truly Real in Fiction

Writers usually decide to be writers before they know what ...

Writers usually decide to be writers before they know what they might write about. In the case of Matt Rees, it was a journey from teenage isolation in Britain to the violence of the Middle East which led him to the elements of his fiction which could...