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Maxim Jakubowski - CWA Chair (Photograph credit to Fenris Oswin)
Diamond Meets the EyePeter Lovesey on the inspiration for Diamond and the Eye. Some of my happiest reading has been in th...
Vaseem KhanVaseem Khan is the author of two crime series set in India, the Baby Ganesh Agency books set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House novels set in 1950s Bombay. His aim with these books is to take rea...
CWA Opens Membership to Self-Published Authors29th July 2021
For the first time in its 68-year history, the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association will allow self-published authors to join its ranks. The move comes after the CWA consulted its members, who voted... Read more
‘Crime in Trying Times’ by J.G. Harlond28th July 2021
Do you actually know anyone who is entirely good? Or entirely bad, with no redeeming qualities? I ask because as a crime writer I create both goodies and the baddies: those who do their very best in t... Read more
The Dinosaur Who Came In From the Cold by David Hodges15th July 2021
When I first discovered my desire to write, it was in virtual prehistoric times, when publishing houses like Methuen, Herbert Jenkins and Collins – to name just a few – adhered to simple publishing pr... Read more
The Challenges of Writing From Multiple Perspectives by A.A. Chaudhuri15th July 2021
I’m hugely excited that She’s Mine, my first psychological thriller, is coming out with Hera Books in August. Unlike my Kramer & Carver legal thriller series, I chose to write it in the first pers... Read more
‘The Real Golden Age of Murder – Pistols, Bombs and Motor Bandits’ by Joan Lock14th July 2021
I wasn’t feeling like writing another book just now partly because I too often seem to choose a subject needing a great deal of research but, despite not previously being attracted by the subject, I... Read more
CWA Daggers 2021 Announced1st July 2021
Chris Whitaker, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, Michael Robotham, Vaseem Khan and Peter May win 2021 CWA Daggers. The winners of the 2021 CWA Daggers, which honour the very best in the crime writing genr... Read more
‘Codes, Ciphers and Cryptic Clues in Crime Fiction’ by Vaseem Khan23rd June 2021
“The Da Vinci Code meets post-Independence India.” That’s how MW Craven, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger, has described my latest novel, The Dying Day. I can understand why. The book, set in Bombay in 1... Read more
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