Featured Author – Alex Shaw

6th March 2015 by TheCRA in Featured Author

Welcome to Alex Shaw, our featured author for March. In this, his first post for the CRA, we wanted to get to know a little bit more about him. How did you start writing? It was 1996 and I was livi...

Featured Post: Fiction Feedback

2nd March 2015 by TheCRA in Crime Readers' Updates

We are delighted to have been sponsored by Fiction Feedback this month. Fiction Feedback provide an independent, affordable, critique service for writers – giving honest, helpful and professiona...

What’s the story – Sally Spedding

27th February 2015 by TheCRA in Crime Readers' Updates, Featured Author

There has to be enough of one whose selling ‘blurb’ and ‘shout line’ will persuade the casual browser that they are about to enter another world real enough to make them forget their own moorings. Thi...

Featured Author Friday – Sally Spedding

20th February 2015 by TheCRA in Featured Author

Last week we had a great post from our Featured Author, Sally Spedding, but I know you want to know a little bit more about her….. My crime chillers explore the darkest sides of people and place...

Settings to Die For – Sally Spedding

13th February 2015 by TheCRA in Featured Author

It has always been a particular setting which has fired the engine of my beginning either a new crime chiller or short story. A setting that hits my heart. Some have been discovered quite by accident,...

Catherine Aird – Diamond Dagger 2015

6th February 2015 by TheCRA in Crime Readers' Updates

Earlier today the CWA made much anticipated announcement of the winner of the 2015 Diamond Dagger. We caught up with Catherine Aird to find out what winning the Diamond Dagger meant to her. How do you...

Heroes and villains – David Beckler

30th January 2015 by TheCRA in Featured Author

As with most genres, the most important character in crime fiction is the hero. This is usually a detective – amateur or professional – who solves the crimes. Writers intending to write a series must...

Rules for Writers – David Beckler

23rd January 2015 by TheCRA in New Releases

When I began writing a few years ago, I hadn’t a clue about the craft of writing and didn’t even know if I could sustain a narrative for the required 80-100k words. For thirty odd years the only writi...

Immortal Madonna by Yvonne Crowe

20th January 2015 by TheCRA in New Releases

Every other Tuesday we feature a publication from leading independent publisher Endeavour Press. The Immortal Madonna – Yvonne Crowe Free Kindle Edition today (20.01.2015) What’s it all a...

Rules for Detective Stories – David Beckler

16th January 2015 by TheCRA in Crime Readers' Updates, Featured Author

Monsignor Ronald Knox came up with 10 rules of detective fiction as a preface to Best Detective Stories of 1928-29: 1) The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must n...