Mick Finlay: Diary of a Debut AuthorThe review copies of my first novel Arrowood arrived three days ago. I had a couple of glasses of wine and opened one but couldn’t bring myself to read the words. It’s getting serious now. You put a l...
Dark Minds for CharityDark Minds is a collection of crime and thriller short stories written by authors from around the UK and beyond. Including best-selling authors from the giant publishing houses, hugely successful inde...
Marnie Riches and Katerina Diamond in conversationMarnie: Before The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die – the first book in my George McKenzie series – was published, I had been writing for nigh on ten years, hoping to make it as a children’s author....
Armistice Day – A Reflection by Simon MichaelAs church bells sounded across Britain on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, my family celebrated the fact that, by some miracle, all six brothers shown in the photograph below survived the Great War: ...
A High Mortality of DovesOn Tuesday 15 November over fifty people descended on Simply Books, an award-winning independent bookshop in Bramhall, to celebrate the launch of Kate Ellis’s new novel A High Mortality of Doves. It w...
Skin & Bone giveaway – Robin Blake on the Birth of ForensicsBy today’s standards, the Georgian age, in which my Cragg and Fidelis mysteries are set, was a particularly callous one. Unequal rights for women, the slave trade and cruel capital punishment were all...
Ready to Enter the Debut Dagger?The CWA’s competition for the start of a crime novel by an unpublished writer is underway! Is this the year you will enter? And maybe get shortlisted, or even win? The prize for the winner is £5...
Launch of Dagger in the Library 2017The CWA is pleased to announce the launch of Dagger in the Library 2017. The prize is made to an author for a body of work that is popular with library users. The prizewinner must have at least 4 crim...
Stasi Child by David Young is the winner of the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger for 2016 – so we can’t recommend it highly enough! Here’s a brief summary of the novel, as provided by...
Pauline Rowson’s latest novel Dangerous Cargo could be yours free – Severn House Publishers have 5 ebooks to give away in a prize draw competition. Dangerous Cargo by Pauline Rowson is t...
Have You Got It Covered? by AJ WainesThe cover for AJ Waines’ new psychological thriller, Inside the Whispers, was recently revealed. Here Alison reveals how it was put together: The Design I’m very honoured to have an excellent cover de...
Dear Amy by Helen CallaghanDear Amy is the outstanding debut novel from East Anglian author Helen Callaghan. Margot Lewis is a teacher at a school and a young girl in her class, Katie Brown, has gone missing. Margot also runs a...
Retirement is just a word…. Taking off the mask of the detective, which had been part of everyday life for many years, proved more difficult than we thought after leaving the police force. Five...
Poison Panic is perhaps best described as Victorian true crime… Discovery It was a note scribbled in the margin of a burial register that first alerted me to the Essex poison cases of the 1840s. A m...
Clare Chase: How I Wrote A Stranger’s HouseHow I wrote A Stranger’s House by Clare Chase The Initial idea I got the idea for the novel from snooping round other people’s homes! I became fascinated by the clues you can pick up about a person’s...
The People’s Book Prize closes on Sunday 10th July – check out the TV interview via the link and read the blog below and maybe go and vote for BK Duncan and her book Foul Trade! Interview...
Seth Lynch and The Paris RipperThe piece is about my book The Paris Ripper, which is due out on Feb 18th. Seth Lynch lives in Wiltshire with his partner and their two daughters. He works as a database administrator and his spare ti...
Sara Sheridan writes the popular Mirabelle Bevan Murder Mysteries set in 1950s London and Brighton as well as historical novels set in 1820-1845. Fascinated particularly by female history she is a cul...
Shetland author Marsali Taylor talks about writing, saliling and living in the northern islesA blog by MARSALI TAYLOR, the Shetland author of the Cass Lynch Mysteries. What book would you save in a house fire? This is a hard one, because I have so many books which are now out of print, like m...
My debut novel In Bitter Chill deals with the kidnapping of two young girls in the 1970s. It’s a distressing subject but I never considered the topic to be off-limits partly because it’s based on a ne...
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The CRA Newsletter: November 2020
The CRA Newsletter: October 2020