Author Ann Cleeves is offering libraries free materials for staging a murder mystery event, ‘Murder in the Ravenswick Hotel’. Her story is set in a fictional Shetland hotel, and invites an audience to...
I was never an investigative journalist – not in any proper sense – but on several occasions I wrote about investigations into murders. They taught me a few stark lessons which have stayed...
Although most crime writers are well acquainted with American Writers’ Conferences such as Boucheron, Thrillerfest and Malice Domestic, I wonder if many have heard of the Sleuthfest Conference, this b...
Phil Viner – Using backstory to write novellasI began writing my first published book (in the attic are my two deformed novels that will remain chained in the dark forever) The Last Winter of Dani Lancing, in a blissful state of low expectation a...
The Crime Thriller ClubDo you know your Morse from your Marple? Your Lewis from your Luther? Or your Martina Cole from your Michael Connelly? Well Cactus TV need you!! For this year’s Crime Thriller Club on ITV3 they...
These days a lot of people look blank when you say the name Nicholas Freeling. Hum the first few bars of “Eye Level” by the Simon Park Orchestra, the theme tune to the Van der Valk TV series, and you...
A First Timer at ThrillerFest – Evonne WarehamThe chance to spend time with some of your favourite big name authors – and to meet new ones? What crime fan wouldn’t be tempted? I’ve visited New York before, but this was my first trip to Thrillerfe...
William Shaw is our Featured Author for August. When the flamboyant Channel 4 conspiracy series Utopia wove the 1979 murder of MP Airey into its plot last month there was some outrage. Neave’s son Pa...
P.D. Viner, Crime Writer: Year OneHow I researched my second novel: Summer of Ghosts. I am a little ashamed to say that I have never been arrested, questioned, or even cautioned by the police. These are rubbish credentials for a crime...
Case Files – No 11 out this weekendDon’t forget to sign up to receive your copy....
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Find An Event: CSI PortsmouthJoin best selling crime authors M.C Beaton, Jessie Keane, Val McDermid, Pauline Rowson and forensic experts and Hampshire police officers at CSI Portsmouth 2014. The stellar line-up for CSI Por...
Giveaway: Martin EdwardsWe have 5 copies of The Coffin Trail by Martin Edwards to giveaway. The Rules Entry for this prize will end at 12am GMT on 24th August. The winner of the prize will be notified by email within...
Elizabeth Flynn – Game, Set and MurderI’m still a newbie, a newly published author. But that, obviously, doesn’t make me new to writing. Like most of my species I’ve been scribbling away at one thing or another for years, sending stuf...
Find an Event: NoirwichPutting the Noir into Norwich: A New Crime Writing Festival 10th – 14th September The Crime Writers’ Association is delighted to be collaborating with University of East Anglia, Waterstones and Writer...
Focus on: Goldsboro BooksGoldsboro Books is the UK’s largest specialist in first edition, signed books. Based in central London they have created the UK’s largest first edition Book of the Month Club which enables...
Today we are delighted to announce a giveaway from Helen Smith. We are giving away one signed copy of Beyond Belief “This wonderful plot makes for a very unusual mystery, and readers will be enthralle...
The Frozen ShroudThe Frozen Shroud has just been published in paperback by Allison & Busby, a pleasing boost to morale as I work on its successor, which will be the seventh Lake District Mystery. The story s is a...
Crime Traveller by William SuttonI used to envy modern linguists swanning off for their third year abroad. I studied Classics; I wished I could take a sabbatical in ancient Athens or Rome. Years later, when I ran away to Brazil, I ne...
Forgotten Book – Martin EdwardsThe CWA resident archivist Martin Edwards focuses on some of the great books you never knew in our feature – The Forgotten Book. Today he looks at “In Whose Dim Shadow” by J.J Connin...
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