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The Dark Room, by Sam BlakeHare’s Landing, West Cork. A house full of mystery… Rachel Lambert leaves London afraid...
Karen CharltonKaren Charlton writes historical crime fiction, set in Regency England. Her Detective Lavender Mysteries, published by Thomas & Mercer, are the fictional adventures of Stephen Lavender, who was a...
Filmed interviews with authors to feature in National Crime Reading Month2nd June 2021
A newly-launched initiative designed to showcase crime writers will feature in National Crime Reading Month in June with four authors talking about their craft and the publishing industry. Launched in... Read more
Love Reading UK’s 100 Top Female-led Crime Novels2nd June 2021
What an exciting collection this is! Love Reading UK is celebrating National Crime Reading Month in June, hosted by the Crime Writers’ Association, by offering you some of their favourite female-led c... Read more
The Invitation by A.M. Castle29th April 2021
The Invitation: join A.M. Castle for a closed circle murder mystery I have always wanted to write a closed circle murder mystery, so I suppose I’ve been lucky – the UK’s first lockdown gave me the mea... Read more
WHAT MAKES A WRITER, by Jay Forman29th April 2021
My father was a psychiatrist and he often told me that psychiatrist’s children are the most messed up people on the planet. He may have been right. Like every other writer I’ve been told “no” more tim... Read more
HISTORY: THE DEVIL’S SCRIPTURE by Jeff Dawson26th April 2021
I lived, some years ago, on a Ladysmith Road. It joined another called Kimberley, thoroughfares of solid, red-brick terracing. Show me any British suburb, built c.1900, and I will give you streets nam... Read more
Caught Doing the Bear, by Leslie Scase26th April 2021
In this article I am going to express some of my personal views on the writer’s use of language in historical novels, both as an author and as a reader. By the use of language, I mean not just the wor... Read more
Writing Forgotten Women by Saeida Rouass26th April 2021
In 2015 I came across a Times newspaper article that detailed the crimes of the ‘Moorish Jack the Ripper’. The article was printed in 1906 and offered a gruesome description of a series of murders of... Read more
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The CRA Newsletter: March 2021