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7th November 2014

Marianne Wheelaghan The lesser developed Republic of Kiribati is a necklace of 33 small islands and atolls, slap bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. According to the World Tourism Organization (U...

Susan Wilkins -The Reality of Evil

31st October 2014

The need to vanquish the forces of evil is much in the news at the moment as Presidents and Prime Ministers grapple with an intractable situation in the Middle East and in particular the rise of Isil....

An image of the front cover of Summer of Ghosts by PD VinerPD Viner Giveaway

11th October 2014

  Prize 1: Signed paperback of The Last Winter of Dani Lancing plus an exclusive Summer of Ghosts badge Prize 2: Signed hardback of Summer of Ghosts plus an exclusive Summer of Ghosts badge We ad...

Susan Wilkins -Do you mind?

10th October 2014

I read about new technology in the newspapers, I try to keep up. I have a phone that is so smart I have no real idea of what it can do. I have a car that talks. In the last couple of months I’ve dippe...

Photo of John Andrews who is an authorJohn Malcolm

9th October 2014

A month or two ago I managed to get a letter published in The Times. The bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo is coming up next year and the paper had been addressing itself towards various celebrati...

CRA Noirwich Giveaway

6th October 2014

                    Our latest giveaway is thanks to the folk at Noirwich and is to win all of these fab SIGNED books. One lucky winner will receive t...

The Path Not Taken – Susan Wilkins

3rd October 2014

I’ve been a writer for nearly thirty years, that’s what it says on my tax returns, so going back to square one, becoming the new kid again, the ingénue, is a bit of a challenge. But I’m a debut crime...

CRA logoWandering and Wondering – Alex Shaw

1st October 2014

Twenty seven years ago I saw Alan Bennett sitting on a wall in the Yorkshire village of Heckmondwikestaring at passers-by and taking notes. When my father and I, two southerners passed by he made note...

The Murderous Cook – Linda Stratmann

26th September 2014

‘I wonder if I have annoyed Linda recently?’ said a friend sitting down to dinner at my house after looking at my collection of true crime books. Crime and cooking have both been great interests of mi...

Linda StratmannSplit Screens – Linda Stratmann

19th September 2014

Multi-tasking is an essential ability for a writer. Hands and mind can work simultaneously and independently, and there can be one issue engaging the forefront of the mind while another is still worki...

A Typical Day – Linda Stratmann

12th September 2014

Recently I was asked to describe a typical working day as a writer. Years ago when I worked in an office I knew exactly what a typical day was – I went to the same place five days a week, and did the...

A Fistful of SeaweedA Fistful of Seaweed – John Bayliss

8th September 2014

‘I groaned out loud. I was never going to get my wallet back, Ackerman wasn’t going to get his photograph back and, as a reward, he was going to boil my bones down to glue. My destiny was to hol...

JE FormanLocation, location, location, eh?

28th August 2014

Being a Canadian mystery writer is a lot like being a Who in Dr. Seuss’s Who-ville. We may live in the second largest country on the planet, but the small size of our population severely limits our ho...

In praise of the Independents – Bea Davenport

24th August 2014

  First of all, let me be clear about the subject matter. When I talk about independent publishing, I mean being traditionally published but by a smaller press that is not part of a larger conglo...

Maigret – William Shaw

22nd August 2014

Watching TV these days, you’d think that something odd is happening to the form of the story. Instead of watching a series, we’ve now started to devour whole boxed sets of Broadchurch or The Bridge. I...

Dragons Pen – David Beckler

20th August 2014

During the 2014 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, authors had the opportunity to pitch their novel ideas to a panel of prominent publishers and agents – the “Dragons” in the title. The f...

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