{"id":4609,"date":"2014-05-05T17:05:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?page_id=4609"},"modified":"2014-05-05T17:06:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T17:06:04","slug":"ayo-onatade","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?page_id=4609","title":{"rendered":"Ayo Onatade"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Misspent\u00a0Youth<\/span><\/h3>\n
\"Ayo<\/a>
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Everyone is passionate about something in his or her life for some it is football or shopping.\u00a0 For me it is a crime fiction in all its connotations and it has been the case for nearly forty years.\u00a0 It started with an Agatha Christie book to be precise.\u00a0 I must hasten to add that the book in question is not my favourite crime novel nor is it my favourite Agatha Christie novel.\u00a0 Those honours go to Farewell my Lovely<\/em> by Raymond Chandler and Murder on the Orient Express<\/em> respectively.\u00a0 However, the book does hold a lot of memories for me and it was what set me off on my journey to a life of crime.<\/p>\n

\"styles\"<\/a>The book in question is The Mysterious Affair at Styles<\/em><\/a>, which introduces readers to Hercule Poirot.\u00a0 It is the very first mystery novel that I ever read.\u00a0 My memory of this book is quite clear to this day.\u00a0 I remember exactly what I was doing and where I was when I first read it.\u00a0 I was in fact on a plane from London to Lagos (Nigeria) where I would spend the next ten years of my life.\u00a0 There is only one person that I have to thank for all this and that is my beloved mother, for she is the one who put the book in my hands.\u00a0 The Mysterious Affair at Styles<\/em> will always have a special place in my heart and on my bookshelf.<\/p>\n

So what am I working on currently?\u00a0 Quite a number of things.\u00a0 Ideas are running through my brain for my next article for Crimespree Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 I have an article to write for the forthcoming Queens of Crime<\/em><\/a> conference due to take place in London and I am also jointly editing an anthology.\u00a0 There is also my day job to contend with as well.<\/p>\n

Social Networking Administrator Ayo is a clerk for a judge in the Court of Appeal, a book reviewer and a major fan of athletics and American football living in London, England. She is the Special Crime Reporter at Shots Ezine and also is an associate member of The Crime Writers Association (CWA) of Great Britain.<\/em>\u00a0http:\/\/www.shotsmag.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Misspent\u00a0Youth Everyone is passionate about something in his or her life for some it is football or shopping.\u00a0 For<\/p>\n

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