William Shaw is our Featured Author for August. When the flamboyant Channel 4 conspiracy series Utopia wove the 1979 murder of MP Airey into its plot last month there was some outrage. Neave’s son Pa...
P.D. Viner, Crime Writer: Year OneHow I researched my second novel: Summer of Ghosts. I am a little ashamed to say that I have never been arrested, questioned, or even cautioned by the police. These are rubbish credentials for a crime...
Case Files – No 11 out this weekendDon’t forget to sign up to receive your copy....
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Find An Event: CSI PortsmouthJoin best selling crime authors M.C Beaton, Jessie Keane, Val McDermid, Pauline Rowson and forensic experts and Hampshire police officers at CSI Portsmouth 2014. The stellar line-up for CSI Por...
Giveaway: Martin EdwardsWe have 5 copies of The Coffin Trail by Martin Edwards to giveaway. The Rules Entry for this prize will end at 12am GMT on 24th August. The winner of the prize will be notified by email within...
Elizabeth Flynn – Game, Set and MurderI’m still a newbie, a newly published author. But that, obviously, doesn’t make me new to writing. Like most of my species I’ve been scribbling away at one thing or another for years, sending stuf...
Find an Event: NoirwichPutting the Noir into Norwich: A New Crime Writing Festival 10th – 14th September The Crime Writers’ Association is delighted to be collaborating with University of East Anglia, Waterstones and Writer...
Focus on: Goldsboro BooksGoldsboro Books is the UK’s largest specialist in first edition, signed books. Based in central London they have created the UK’s largest first edition Book of the Month Club which enables...
Today we are delighted to announce a giveaway from Helen Smith. We are giving away one signed copy of Beyond Belief “This wonderful plot makes for a very unusual mystery, and readers will be enthralle...
The Frozen ShroudThe Frozen Shroud has just been published in paperback by Allison & Busby, a pleasing boost to morale as I work on its successor, which will be the seventh Lake District Mystery. The story s is a...
Crime Traveller by William SuttonI used to envy modern linguists swanning off for their third year abroad. I studied Classics; I wished I could take a sabbatical in ancient Athens or Rome. Years later, when I ran away to Brazil, I ne...
Forgotten Book – Martin EdwardsThe CWA resident archivist Martin Edwards focuses on some of the great books you never knew in our feature – The Forgotten Book. Today he looks at “In Whose Dim Shadow” by J.J Connin...
Find an Event: HarrogateTaking place over four-days each July, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival presents an accessible, challenging and entertaining long-weekend of live literature events, engaging 13,000 p...
Focus on: Independent BookshopsLeigh Russell Shares her Thoughts on Indie Bookshops Is it coincidence, or inevitable in the current zeitgeist, that just before reading a request on the CRA website for “posts about independent...
Quentin Bates was our Featured Author for June. We hope you enjoyed his posts and join us in thanking him for his contributions. But we haven’t finished with the arm twisting just yet and before...
Where Do You Find Your Ideas? – Martin EdwardsOne of the questions writers are asked most often is: “Where do you find your ideas?” In fact, I gave this title to a short story I wrote years ago, about a not very successful novelist wh...
International Crime MonthFour independent UK publishers—Melville House UK, Europa Editions, No Exit Press, and Serpent’s Tail—have joined forces to launch an International Crime Month. International Crime Month is a month-lon...
Shamanism – Nina MiltonAt first, the shamanic workshop felt perfectly ordinary. Thirty of us assembled in the city of Bath on a sunny autumn day. We sat on floor cushions in a circle, chatting a bit nervously, waiting for o...
Slaughter in Southwold 2014: Southwold Library’s Crime Writing FestivalA fringe event for the first Southwold Arts Festival Slaughter in Southwold was a Friends of Southwold Library event in association with the Crime Writers Association. It took place on the weekend o...
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