Crime Writers appoint Libraries ChampionThe Crime Writers’ Association has appointed its first Libraries Champion, Ruth Dudley Edwards. Ruth and the CWA will work with libraries nationwide to support the public library network, promote the...
At the annual CWA conference, held in Edinburgh in April, we asked CWA delegates for a short story of under 500 words with the following titles: ‘Inevitable Crimes of Passion’ and ‘B...
A Million Books SoldThere I was, putting the final touches to my latest manuscript prior to sending it off for editing, and flicking around the internet in case anyone had mentioned my books on Twitter (they hadn’t...
Dagger in the Library 2017 Shortlist AnnouncedThe shortlist of the CWA 2017 Dagger in the Library has been announced. The Dagger in the Library is a prize for a body of work by a crime writer that users of libraries particularly admire. It is one...
Where I write and why it matters, by California-based author Dylan H JonesToday, there’s a commotion in the cafe. It’s seven fifteen on a Sunday morning and the barista is nowhere to be found. In the kitchen, the mostly Mexican cooks and servers are shrugging their shoulder...
So Where Do We Go From Here? Crime fiction today, by Ayo OnatadeCrime fiction can always in my opinion hold its head up amongst all the other different genres. It is the most read, borrowed and written. In fact, I would go as far to say that it is at the top of th...
Crime Writing and Reggie Kray, by retired cop Paul HarrisonAs an ex-cop turned crime writer, I have now had 30 plus books traditionally published in the true crime genre. I was still in the police when my first book was published, yet another book about Jack...
Case Files 25The latest issue of Case Files has just been sent out to CRA members. Join the Crime Readers’ Association for all the latest information on newly published/forthcoming crime novels and fascinati...
E S Thomson Finds Time for CrimeRecently, the fabulous Denise Mina remarked that crime writers were expected to write a book a year – an extraordinary undertaking for any writer. ‘Yes,’ I thought. ‘She’s right! Even worse, some of...
Mick Finlay: Diary of a Debut Author #2My book, Arrowood, is going to be published at the end of this month, and a lot’s been happening in preparation. The cover, now in its fifth version, has been agreed. The first two had a silhouette of...
Read CWA Dagger in the Library Longlisted AuthorsThe longlist of the CWA 2017 Dagger in the Library has been officially announced, based on nominations received from 175 libraries across the UK and Ireland and now we’d like to get readers involved....
Jan Newton – Diary of a Debut AuthorI wonder if I’m unusual, or whether other writers have found themselves thrilled and delighted (of course) but also more than just a little stunned at the thought of having a book out there on the she...
The Darkness WithinIt is 1906 and the Faro family gather in Orkney after the untimely death of Faro’s son-in-law Erland Yesnaby. As they rally round the grieving widow Emily, their attention is caught by strange activit...
Case Files ezine – fun, fascinating and free!The latest issue of Case Files was out at the beginning of February. Ten newly released or forthcoming novels from CWA members are profiled. These include ingenious plots from within the UK alongside...
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...
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