Behind the Scenes of Crime in 1987 – the CWA on BBC Radio 4!In 1987 longstanding CWA member Joan Lock, who had already written and presented several plays and programmes for Radio 4, made a documentary about the CWA featuring many crime-writing luminaries of t...
2023 Dagger Awards Winners Announced2023 CWA Dagger Awards Announced The winners of the 2023 CWA Daggers, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, have been announced. The prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagge...
“The Red Death” by Abraham Kawa‘THE RED DEATH’ BY ABRAHAM KAWA 1970. After a disturbing murder case left DI Chris Bates’ mental health shattered, he spends time recovering in an asylum before being released to a halfway house. When...
National Crime Reading Month off to a blazing start!National Crime Reading Month kicked off with simultaneous launches in London, Belfast and Edinburgh – appropriately in one of Waterstones flagship stores in Piccadilly; No Alibis, an independent...
This Wild, Wild Country1933. Cornelia Stover is headstrong and business-minded – not the kind of woman the men of Boldville, New Mexico, expect her to be. Then she stumbles upon a secret hidden out in the hills . . ....
Vaseem Khan elected new Chair of the CWAVaseem Khan has been elected as the new Chair of the CWA at the association’s AGM earlier this month, taking over from Maxim Jakubowski, who ably steered the CWA Chair for three years. Vaseem is...
CWA Daggers Shortlist 2023 announcedThe 2023 shortlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced at Crime Fest in Bristol. 2023 marks...
International Literary Properties (ILP) to sponsor the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2023International Literary Properties (ILP), the global company that invests in, acquires, and manages the intellectual property rights to books, plays and other literary works, has announced their sponso...
‘The Dog Sitter Detective’ by Antony JohnstonMeet Gwinny, an unlikely bloodhound, and her four-legged friends determined to dig up the truth! Penniless Gwinny Tuffel is delighted to attend her good friend Tina’s upmarket wedding. But when the bi...
Daggers Longlists announced!The 2023 Daggers longlist has been announced at the CWA annual conference in York where members toasted the listed authors and publishers. The shortlist will be announced at a reception at CrimeFest i...
‘The Birthday Girl’ by Sarah WardWelcome to Eldey, an island with deadly secrets. Guests include – Mona: a carefree artist, staying at the Cloister to work on her illustrations. Beth: the harried mother of a toddler, on the remote We...
‘Four Hidden Treasures’ By H L MarsayWelcome to Hartwell, an English village full of cobbled streets, ancient curses, and buried secrets. Reeling from the last few years of uncertainty, the villagers of Hartwell are adjusting to their ne...
Barking up the Right Tree – a new cosy mystery series from the author of Geraldine SteelBy Leigh Russell Life is full of surprises. Partial to round numbers, I always hankered after writing twenty books in my Geraldine Steel series. To begin with, twenty books seemed like an impossibly a...
In conversation with Sara ParetskyThe CWA North America chapter recently hosted an evening in conversation with Sara Paretsky (author of the VI Warshawksi books.) It was recorded and is now hosted on our YouTube channel. Free to watch...
Walter Mosley Awarded CWA Diamond Dagger 2023Walter Mosley is the 2023 recipient of the highest honour in crime writing, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger. The CWA Daggers are now regarded by the publishing world as the foremos...
‘Web of Lies’ by Paul GitshamWhen mother-of-two Louisa doesn’t return home from work one night, her husband raises the alarm. Investigating the workshop where she ran her mail-order business reveals signs she was taken by force –...
MURDER MYSTERIES: A NEW GOLDEN AGE? asks Tom MeadLike many people, I grew up in thrall to the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (GAD for short). Our home was heaped with Agatha Christie paperbacks, so even before I picked up a single one and actually...
‘My Sister’s Secret’ by Diane SaxonFour sisters, four secrets. Who has the deadliest of them all? Something happened to me when I was nine. My childhood memories before that fateful day are gone. Extinguished. The aftermath has become...
‘The Art of Naming’ by Kim HaysWar and Peace is supposed to contain 500 named characters, and readers find it hard to keep them straight. For one thing, each one is called by multiple names, and, for another, those names are Russia...
‘The Accident’ by Julia StoneAn unidentified young woman dies falling from a bridge onto Janice Thomason’s car. The police rule it as misadventure; not an act of suicide or murder, just an accident. But who was this woman? And wh...
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