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Maxim Jakubowski - CWA Chair (Photo: Fenris Oswin)
‘The Thief, the Wife and the Canoe’ by David LeighThe Thief, His Wife and The Canoe is the behind-the-scenes account of a true event of audacious dece...
Victoria DowdVictoria is the award-winning author of the bestselling Smart Woman’s Mystery series. Her debut novel, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder, won The People’s Book Prize for fiction 2021 and was named In...
Are you a saint or a sinner? asks Caroline England24th May 2022
When it comes to my psychological suspense novels, I’m a counsellor, therapist and particularly a psychologist. How I love to excavate my characters’ innermost thoughts and feelings and find out who t... Read more
Bookseller of the Month: May 2022 – Beccles Books4th May 2022
In conversation with Elly Griffiths 1 Exchange House, Exchange Square, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 9HH Tel: 01502 716806 https://www.facebook.com/becclesbooks/ It’s 11 years since Lee Mason founded Beccles... Read more
Writing about Food in Fiction26th April 2022
I love mysteries that talk of food. Some of my favourite series include the Inspector Chen Cao series by Qiu Xiaolong, which brings Chinese everyday cuisine to life, Mia P Manansala’s Tita Rosie... Read more
CWA Daggers Longlists announced25th April 2022
The 2022 longlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA... Read more
28th March 2022
Announcements of Daggers 2022 & Self-Nomination for 2023 All lists will be reproduced on the CWA website shortly after the announcements. Debut Dagger longlist only: online late afternoon event (5... Read more
Fascists – the Perfect Villains? by Jason Monaghan22nd March 2022
We all hate fascism, agreed? If not, stop reading here. When we were young, ‘the Germans’ were the baddies in our games, on TV shows and those stalwart WW2 films. Only when I began to study hist... Read more
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe by David Leigh22nd March 2022
My book started its life in late 2007, the same month I had flown from Panama to Miami and on to Manchester, via Atlanta, Georgia, to bring Anne Darwin home to face the music. Anne was the wife of ‘Ca... Read more
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The CRA Newsletter: September 2021
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