Peter James GiveawayNow we can’t deny that we are more than a little bit excited about the first giveaway for National Crime Writing Month 2013. Those that pay attention to us will have noticed that I promised a bi...
CRIMEFESTThis weekend sees the movers and the shakers, the hip and the happening and everyone in between descending on Bristol for CRIMEFEST. Billed as “the convention for people who like to read an occa...
Month-Long Crime Wave Predicted To Hit UK in JuneNational Crime Writing Month is Back! The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Director, Lucy Santos, explains why it would be criminal to miss the UK’s fourth annual celebration of crime writing old and...
The CRA loves to give its readers tips on the best crime books, authors and events around. A fantastic event coming up on the 20th May definitely fulfills the criteria of being one of the best events...
THE DELIGHTS OF BEING DIFFERENT – OR – DO YOU WANT ROMANCE WITH THATYou may remember that early in April we offered a great giveaway prize of a, signed, Evonne Wareham novel to two lucky Crime Reader Association members. The giveaway finished at the end of April and w...
Crime fiction and CSI fans pack into first ever CSI GatesheadNearly a hundred and twenty people attended the first ever CSI Gateshead event at Gateshead Library on Thursday 25 April. Inspired by the CSI Portsmouth event, which crime author, Pauline Rowson helps...
CWA Dagger in the Library, 2013 Long list announcedSponsor: Dead Good, The Random House Group The judging panel for this year’s Dagger in the Library Award are pleased to announce the longlist for the 2013 award. Mobeena Khan, who chairs the judges, s...
Crime Writers’ Association Conference 2013Once a year members of the Crime Writers’ Association get together, drink, chat, drink, eat, drink, laugh, drink and learn at our annual conference. This year we were in Lake Windermere over the...
CRA review: Lie Still, Julia HeaberlinLie Still is a potent blast of twenty first century Southern Gothic. Julia Heaberlin brings a poet’s craft and conviction to her storytelling, and the characters which populate her fictional Texan tow...
CRA April Giveaway: Never Coming HomeThe Crime Writers’ Association and Crime Readers’ Association are currently gearing up to National Crime Writing Month, which will start at the end of May, and will see special crime event...
Criminal London giveawayLondon as a city has a dark and criminal past – and a new book provides the definitive guide to the capital’s crimes. From Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street and Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel...
Giveaway – win cinema ticketsFrom 29 March, the BFI in London will be showing a tribute to John Boorman’s crime classic, Point Blank. CRA readers can now win a free pair of tickets the the film. John Boorman’s American deb...
Review – Rules of HonourMatt Hilton’s latest crime novel is reviewed by Graham Smith. When his best friend’s father is murdered, Joe Hunter steps up to help deliver the kind of justice the courts can’t give. Together...
The Jerusalem PuzzleLaurence O’Bryan is the author of thrillers The Istanbul Puzzle and the second novel in the series, The Jerusalem Puzzle. Here he tells us about his visit to the city to research the novel. In J...
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