As an interesting trivia, Robert Goddard’s award announcement came at the same time with the author’s 28th book, One False Move, in 2019. The author received several awards for his work, including the W H Smith Thumping Good Read Award for his book Into the Blue, the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Original Paperback for Long Time Coming, and the CWA Diamond Dagger Award in 2019, which is an award that “recognises authors whose crime writing careers have been marked by sustained excellence, and who have made a significant contribution to the genre.” Previous CWA Diamond Dagger award winners include Ann Cleeves, Dick Francis, John Le Carre, Lee Child, P.D. Often, readers have troubles predicting the book ending. Also, Robert Goddard is a master of plot twists, which he employs in all of his books. Robert also does a lot of research for each of his books, and he once mentioned that research is something he enjoys doing. However, as he mentioned in an interview, often his characters take on a life of their own, and the stories diverse vastly from what was originally intended. Some of the novels, such as Name to a Face, Days without Number, Beyond Recall, are set closer to home, namely in Cornwall, which is where the author is also living.īefore writing his novels, he first creates the outline and maps out all details. Throughout his stories, the author sets the locations for his characters all over the UK, and to various far-away places like Japan, France, Belgium, Greece, and the Balkans. Thus, he ends up in the middle of scheming, conspiracies, British politics and bedrooms, and, of course, in the crosshairs of a ruthless killer. Now he realizes that his current main purpose in life is figuring out what happened with Heather. When a guest at the villa, Heather Mallender, disappears during a walking tour, Harry is the main suspect in the disappearance. He is running from his past, but it seems trouble comes to find him no matter where he is. In the book, Harry Barnett is living in Greece, working as a caretaker for a friend’s villa. It was a pretty major departure from the book plot, and the author himself was not overly thrilled with the adaptation.
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Into the Blue, the first Harry Barnett book, was adapted for TV starring John Thaw as Harry. Robert Goddard is mostly known for his numerous standalone novels above all, and he prefers it that way, as he has the freedom of setting his novels both geographically and historically in any place and time he wanted without being constrained by a previous book in a series.
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His two series have 3 books each, and they form only the minority of his books. Following that, the author wrote a book every year, or at least every two years. The first Robert Goddard book was published in 1986 with the title Past Caring. Many of the Robert Goddard books are historical fiction in nature, and this is no surprise considering the author’s history major in college. He always loved reading suspense and mystery novels, and not having found many books to his liking, he decided to write his own stories in the genre. Thus, he started working as an educational administrator in Devon right until he started writing books for a living. After graduation, he tried to get jobs both as a journalist and as a teacher, however, they were not successful. He went to Bathampton County Primary School, then moved on to Wallisdean County Junior School and Price’s Grammar School in Fareham, following which he enrolled at the University of Cambridge to study history. The author Robert William Goddard (not to be confused with the early rocket designer Robert Goddard) was born 13 November 1954 in Fareham, Hampshire, England.