Anya Lipska: My top 5 true crime readsAnya Lipska, author of Where the Devil Can’t Go, a crime thriller set among London’s Poles, chooses her top five true crime reads. 1. Shot in the Heart– Mikal Gilmore, 1994 In 1977, Gary Gilmore’s dem...
Saturday Sixers: Jane FinnisPondering the sixty-year anniversary of the Crime Writers’ Association, Jane finds herself wondering: what was I doing in 1953? I’d like to say I don’t recall 1953, it was before my time. But I’d be l...
Leigh Russell: The Story of BooksFrom as far back as we can trace, people have felt the need to share stories. Wasn’t early cave man a forerunner of the fisherman boasting about ‘the one that got away’? Imagine a pr...
Chris Collett GiveawayChris Collett was born in East Anglia and writes a series of police procedural crime novels based in Birmingham, England featuring Detective Inspector Tom Mariner. As a special needs teacher Chris...
Saturday Sixers: Why 60 is a magic number in TV dramaNot only are we in the midst of National Crime Writing Month but we are already half way through the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Anniversary year – yes we are 60! To honour our anniversary Satu...
Kings Place launches first-ever travel festival, 22-23 June 2013Geraldine D’Amico: I am delighted to launch the first ever travel festival at Kings Place. Located by the canal and a short walk from King’s Cross and St Pancras, this is the ideal venue to thin...
Giveaway: CSI PortsmouthWin two free tickets to CSI Portsmouth where crime fiction meets crime fact with best selling crime authors, police and forensic experts. Saturday 2 November 2013 CSI Portsmouth 2013 is already shapi...
Linda Stratmann: The Many Headed WriterA month in the life of a busy writer Writers are always busy, and some months are busier than others, but May has been quite a challenge! I have spent most of the month preparing an outline for a new...
Saturday Sixers: Crime Writing in the FutureNot only are we in the midst of National Crime Writing Month but we are already half way through the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Anniversary year – yes we are 60! To honour our anni...
Peter James GiveawayNow we can’t deny that we are more than a little bit excited about the first giveaway for National Crime Writing Month 2013. Those that pay attention to us will have noticed that I promised a bi...
CRIMEFESTThis weekend sees the movers and the shakers, the hip and the happening and everyone in between descending on Bristol for CRIMEFEST. Billed as “the convention for people who like to read an occa...
Month-Long Crime Wave Predicted To Hit UK in JuneNational Crime Writing Month is Back! The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Director, Lucy Santos, explains why it would be criminal to miss the UK’s fourth annual celebration of crime writing old and...
The CRA loves to give its readers tips on the best crime books, authors and events around. A fantastic event coming up on the 20th May definitely fulfills the criteria of being one of the best events...
THE DELIGHTS OF BEING DIFFERENT – OR – DO YOU WANT ROMANCE WITH THATYou may remember that early in April we offered a great giveaway prize of a, signed, Evonne Wareham novel to two lucky Crime Reader Association members. The giveaway finished at the end of April and w...
Crime fiction and CSI fans pack into first ever CSI GatesheadNearly a hundred and twenty people attended the first ever CSI Gateshead event at Gateshead Library on Thursday 25 April. Inspired by the CSI Portsmouth event, which crime author, Pauline Rowson helps...
CWA Dagger in the Library, 2013 Long list announcedSponsor: Dead Good, The Random House Group The judging panel for this year’s Dagger in the Library Award are pleased to announce the longlist for the 2013 award. Mobeena Khan, who chairs the judges, s...
Crime Writers’ Association Conference 2013Once a year members of the Crime Writers’ Association get together, drink, chat, drink, eat, drink, laugh, drink and learn at our annual conference. This year we were in Lake Windermere over the...
CRA review: Lie Still, Julia HeaberlinLie Still is a potent blast of twenty first century Southern Gothic. Julia Heaberlin brings a poet’s craft and conviction to her storytelling, and the characters which populate her fictional Texan tow...
CRA April Giveaway: Never Coming HomeThe Crime Writers’ Association and Crime Readers’ Association are currently gearing up to National Crime Writing Month, which will start at the end of May, and will see special crime event...
Criminal London giveawayLondon as a city has a dark and criminal past – and a new book provides the definitive guide to the capital’s crimes. From Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street and Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel...
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The CRA Newsletter: September 2021
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