Giveaway: Threads of TreasonTo celebrate National Crime Reading Month we have lined up a series of giveaways from some of your favourite authors. Today we are delighted to announce a giveaway from Mary Bale. We are giving away o...
The curse of the TBR pile It’s an affliction, but not necessarily a bad one. There are others that are so much worse. They’re everywhere, sneaking into corners and taking up residence, lying qu...
Dangers of the void by Carol Anne DavisWhat do you do if you have too much time on your hands? If you’re outgoing you find new social outlets or take on voluntary work whilst, if shy, you might prefer to take up gardening, master a new st...
Area: Chester Day job: Full time writer An Appetite for Violets is by Martine Bailey. Here, we take a look at both writer and her forthcoming work. So, why should we r...
Giveaway: Thriller SchoolTo celebrate National Crime Reading Month we have lined up a series of giveaways from some of your favourite authors. Today we are delighted to announce a giveaway from the Thriller School Oxford. We...
Giveaway: The King of Crime WritersFiction maestro John Creasey (1908 – 1973) was and remains an enigma. He was one of the biggest selling and most prolific crime writers of the 20th century. Creasey wrote over 620 novels in both...
Giveaway: C L TaylorTo celebrate National Crime Reading Month we have lined up a series of giveaways from some of your favourite authors. Today we are delighted to announce a giveaway by C L Taylor. 5 signed copies of Th...
There are questions a writer will groan inwardly at hearing, while hopefully maintaining an outward smile, however glassy. Do you make any money from these books, then? That’s a good one. Then there a...
To celebrate National Crime Reading Month we have lined up a series of giveaways from some of your favourite authors. Today we are delighted to announce a giveaway by Dirk Robertson. 15 copies of his...
Travels around Scotland – Pamela St AbbsOut on the motorbike in the Scottish sunshine, enjoying the smells of cut grass, the walking boots swapped for motorbike boots. We leave the M9 motorway by Doune. I ride pillion so I get the chance t...
Crime Fiction and England by Sarah WilliamsAmong the many prejudices with which I have hedged round my life has been the belief that I didn’t like crime fiction set in the UK, or, more specifically, in England. it seemed too close, too familia...
The Lure of the Sociopath – CL TaylorIt’s no co-incidence that some of my favourite characters in fiction and film are sociopaths – Patrick Bateman, Amy Elliot Dunne, the Marquise de Merteuil, Tom Ripley, Hannibal Lector and Kevin...
Heads for Murder: The Victorian pseudo-science of Phrenology – Dr Keith SouterIt was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who first attracted me to crime fiction and the Victorian age. I was eleven years old when I first read the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and I was immediately hooked. I was...
Giveaway: Leigh RussellTo celebrate National Crime Reading Month we have lined up a series of giveaways from some of your favourite authors. Today we are delighted to announce a giveaway by Leigh Russell. Two copies of the...
I thought that might grab your attention. What’s there to say about sex? To start with, I’m given to understand there’s a lot of it about. We humans (men, anyway) are supposedly hardwired to think abo...
Crime Fiction and Sales by Richard GodwinAnalysing sales trends is a tricky business. Predicting them is almost impossible. But when thinking of what type of crime novel sells, be it the cosy or the more violent novel, there are a few clear...
Case Files 10:Case Files (edition 10) is now out and available to Crime Readers’ Association subscribers. Signing up is FREE and easy. As usual we bring you the best of new crime writing with new releases fro...
Imogen Robertson talks about Highways and Byways – a book she thinks everyone should read. Actually Highways and Byways is a series of books published in the first half of the twentieth century...
Imogen studied German and Russian at Cambridge, then spent a while working as a TV director before becoming a full-time writer. Much of her childhood was spent lost in the novels of Dorothy L. Sayer...
Paul Finch has trod the sodden streets of Manchester both as a cop and as a journalist. He then learned his creative writing skills by contributing television scripts to The Bill. (Often cited as th...
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