Home » Justin Kerr-Smiley

Justin Kerr-Smiley

Justin Kerr-Smiley on A Leap in the Dark

Justin Kerr-Smiley on A Leap in the Dark

The journalist and author reflects on the creation and approach behind his new novel.
Justin Kerr-Smiley

Justin, A Leap in the Dark is a historical novel set in the criminal underworld of Edinburgh. Why did you want to write it? I grew up in Scotland and spent part of my youth in Edinburgh, which had and still has a strong hold on my imagination. A Leap In the Dark is...

A Leap In The Dark

A Leap In The Dark

The genesis of a novel
Justin Kerr-Smiley

Every work of fiction starts with a single idea. An assassin hired to kill a president (The Day Of The Jackal), an elderly fisherman who loses his prize to a shark (The Old Man And The Sea), a doctor who transforms into a beast at night and commits murder (Jekyll and...