The Crime Readers' Association

Pauline Rowson

5th September 2016

Pauline Rowson’s latest novel Dangerous Cargo could be yours free – Severn House Publishers have 5 ebooks to give away in a prize draw competition.  Dangerous Cargo by  Pauline Rowson is t...

Seth Lynch and The Paris Ripper

8th June 2016

The piece is about my book The Paris Ripper, which is due out on Feb 18th. Seth Lynch lives in Wiltshire with his partner and their two daughters. He works as a database administrator and his spare ti...

Coming on to Rain – Christine Poulson

26th June 2015

February 1947 was the coldest on record. Snow fell somewhere in the UK every day from January 22nd until mid March.There were fifteen foot snow drifts. Supplies had to be airlifted to villages and hou...

Lady into Fox by Christine Poulson

19th June 2015

‘How’s the novel going?’ asked my husband. ‘Hard going,’ I said. ‘Why?’ ‘You know how when you’re writing something scholarly you have to decide what to...

Christine Poulson – The Pig and the Sausage

12th June 2015

‘I draw from life – but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognise a pig in a sausage.’ I love this quotation from Fanny Trollope, mother of the...

Christine Poulson – A good occupation?

5th June 2015

I believe it was Agatha Christie who remarked that murder was a good occupation for a woman at home. What she might have added was that nevertheless it was important for that woman to get out of the h...

SJI Holiday- Do you really need a writers’ platform?

20th May 2015

What is a Writers’ Platform? If you search online, you’ll find several definitions, some more complicated than others. But in basic terms, it is a group of things that you do to get your name noticed...

The Debut Dagger Dream – SJI Holliday

14th May 2015

You know what it’s like… you spend years working on bits of novels, maybe some short stories, maybe you even finish a novel but it’s so bad you let it disappear into a file on your computer that you k...

Featured Author – Alex Shaw

6th March 2015

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...

What’s the story – Sally Spedding

27th February 2015

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

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

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,...

Heroes and villains – David Beckler

30th January 2015

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 Detective Stories – David Beckler

16th January 2015

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...

The 12 Suspects of Christmas: The Solution

2nd January 2015

Previously in this periodical, the author put before you a Yuletide conundrum and now begs your indulgence to present her elegant solution… It was the second day of the Year of Our Lord 1896, wh...

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