Marcella Dragan
Crime fiction
London
Human nature
Stories of crime, secrets and the people behind them.
I write stories about London, crime and the complicated people caught somewhere between the two.
I have always been fascinated by the things people hide: their secrets, their obsessions, their fears and the choices they make when no one is watching.
Now I am turning that fascination into fiction.
My first series takes me into the streets of London, into the history beneath them and into the darker corners of human nature. Expect murder, mystery, secrets, difficult questions, and characters who are never quite as simple as they first appear.
And because no good story happens in a vacuum, there will be plenty of London along the way: its streets, churches, pubs, buildings, history and the strange little details that make a place feel real.
Welcome. Have a look around.
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London has always had its sins.
Some of them are worth dying for.
Would you kill for them?
Fleet Street Sins is a serial-killer crime & British Police procedural series set in the heart of London, where murder investigations, ancient beliefs and human weaknesses collide.
Eight books. Eight destructive thoughts. One city.
The Writer’s Desk
Writing a crime novel means spending a surprising amount of time thinking bout murder. Fortunately, plenty of other research is involved.
Books. London. History. Churches. Streets. Old buildings. Strange stories. Human behaviour.
And occasionally, a character who decides that the plot you carefully planned isn’t the plot they have in mind.
Here I share some of what happens behind the books.
A little about me
I’m Marcella.
Writer, lifelong reader and London enthusiast with a particular fascination for crime, history and the complicated things people do.
I’ve spent much of my life writing about real people and real events. Now I’m turning my attention to fiction.
I love stories that make you want to keep reading just one more chapter, characters who aren’t entirely what they seem, and places that have stories of their own.
London, naturally, provides plenty of all three.
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Come a little further into the story.
Book news, behind-the-scenes research, London discoveries, excerpts and the occasional secret from the case files.
No daily emails. No endless noise. Just a letter from my desk when I have something worth telling you about