‘The Thief, the Wife and the Canoe’ by David LeighThe Thief, His Wife and The Canoe is the behind-the-scenes account of a true event of audacious deception and coercion, offering an unprecedented insight into a mind-boggling story that gripped the na...
Bookseller of the Month: May 2022 – Beccles BooksIn conversation with Elly Griffiths 1 Exchange House, Exchange Square, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 9HH Tel: 01502 716806 https://www.facebook.com/becclesbooks/ It’s 11 years since Lee Mason founded Beccles...
Writing about Food in FictionI love mysteries that talk of food. Some of my favourite series include the Inspector Chen Cao series by Qiu Xiaolong, which brings Chinese everyday cuisine to life, Mia P Manansala’s Tita Rosie...
CWA Daggers Longlists announcedThe 2022 longlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA...
‘The Dead of Winter’ by David Stuart DaviesThe Dead of Winter A Rupert Wild Mystery by David Stuart Davies Level Best Books A Golden Age mystery with a thread of darkness. Having survived the First World War and been decorated for his bravery...
Announcements of Daggers 2022 & Self-Nomination for 2023 All lists will be reproduced on the CWA website shortly after the announcements. Debut Dagger longlist only: online late afternoon event (5...
Fascists – the Perfect Villains? by Jason MonaghanWe all hate fascism, agreed? If not, stop reading here. When we were young, ‘the Germans’ were the baddies in our games, on TV shows and those stalwart WW2 films. Only when I began to study hist...
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe by David LeighMy book started its life in late 2007, the same month I had flown from Panama to Miami and on to Manchester, via Atlanta, Georgia, to bring Anne Darwin home to face the music. Anne was the wife of ‘Ca...
Music of the Night – CWA short story anthologyMusic of the Night is the anthology of original short stories contributed by Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) members, with music as the connecting theme. Whether it’s the swaying notes of classical o...
‘From the slush pile to the Sorbonne’ – Peter Lovesey on the lows and highs of short story writingMany stories ago, I found a second-hand book published in 1947 called The Queen’s Awards. It contained the winning short fiction in a competition organised by the two American mystery writers, Frederi...
‘The C Change in Undercover Policing’ by Stephen BentleyHaving now written two non-fiction and several fiction books about undercover cops, I know a thing or two about authenticity when writing fiction involving characters who are undercover police officer...
Open House Submissions 100×100 for Under-represented Writers10am Tuesday 1 March 2022 – 10am Wednesday 2 March 2022 For 24 hours, United Agents Books Department will be holding an Open House submissions window to encourage submissions from groups that ar...
‘Entering the secret world of urban gangs’ by Jennie EnsorWhat goes on inside closed groups has always fascinated me – whether it’s a dysfunctional family unit, an urban gang or a Metropolitan Police murder team. All three feature in my fourth book, Silenced...
The Subsequent Wife by Priscilla MastersJennifer Lomax is just twenty-one but she’s already taken some hard knocks in life. So when older, reserved and enigmatic widower Steven Taverner asks her to marry him, she’s desperate to...
Hunt for the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Prize Winner 2022The hunt for the best unpublished short mystery story is on. Entrants have until 6pm GMT on Monday 28 February to enter the international Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Margery Allingham Short Myste...
Bookseller of the Month – February 2022: Winstone BooksWinstone Books in Sherborne, Dorset, is our February Bookseller of the Month. Bookseller Elly Griffiths paid them a visit. By serendipitous coincidence, February 2022 marks the tenth anniversary of Wa...
A Talent for Murder by Matthew BoothIt has been a long time coming. Since I first encountered Sherlock Holmes when I was 11 years old, I wanted to write crime and detective stories and, over the years, I wrote several crime novels (unpu...
When I signed a two-book deal with Polygon back in 2019 under the new name of Morgan Cry, I was ecstatic. I delivered both books to the publisher by late 2019 and thought, what do I do now? I knew tha...
‘The Downstairs Neighbour’ by Helen CooperIn a converted Georgian townhouse in south west London, three families live under one roof. The large flat that takes up the top two floors is home to the Harlow family: happily married Paul and Steph...
First Love by Maxim JakubowskiIt might appear perplexing to some that the latest book by the erstwhile owner of the Murder One bookshop and current Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association happens not to be a crime and mystery nove...
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