Crime writer Lisa Cutts is the daughter of a former Metropolitan police officer. She obtained her first degree in Law, working in a number of jobs in London and around the South East, before becoming a police officer herself in 1996. She later achieved a second degree in Applied Criminal Investigation. She lives in Kent with her husband, a retired police officer, close to her three step-children and five step-grandchildren, where she balances working full-time for Kent Police with writing crime fiction. An extract from her debut novel, Never Forget, won the Writer’s Retreat Competition in 2012 and was published by Myriad in 2013. Remember, Remember, the second book in the DC Nina Foster series, was published in 2014.
Interviews and Features
Lisa Cutts talks about murder for We Love This Book
‘My books feature murder investigations as their core, largely because it’s a business I know well…’
Read Lisa’s piece on why crime fiction is so often about murder for We Love This Book.
Lisa Cutts in an interview for Kent Libraries
‘It was crucial to me that anything I wrote about in Never Forget could actually happen and if I encountered the same scenarios and enquiries in a live investigation, I would deal with them in exactly the same way as the main character, DC Nina Foster.’
Lisa Cutts talks NaNoWriMo about insider police knowledge and books to take to a desert island, in an interview for Kent Libraries.
Lisa Cutts interview for SHOTS
‘My aim, besides writing the best police procedural I could, was to show the real side to policing: basing facts on powers of search, entry, detaining a prisoner and custody time limits, but showing that officers are usually decent people with their own problems, lives and sense of humour.’
Lisa talks about writing and bringing the job home in a feature for SHOTS – the Crime and Thriller eZine.