What attracts you in general to historical fiction over current fiction? Does it offer more possibilities or set limitations?

S.D. Sykes Thanks Thomas. I tend to read historical fiction - particularly historical crime fiction, so a historical setting always appealed to me . In the 14th century there were (obviously) no phones, forensics, police force. This makes the solving of a crime a little more of a cerebral exercise, involving deduction and interrogation. I like the challenges this presents to me as a writer. It makes the investigation less procedural and more about the strength, and weaknesses, of the protagonist. I also just love history - particularly medieval!

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