Rules for Writers – David Beckler
When I began writing a few years ago, I hadn’t a clue about the craft of writing and didn’t even know if I could sustain a narrative for the required 80-100k words. For thirty odd years the only writi...
Immortal Madonna by Yvonne Crowe
Every other Tuesday we feature a publication from leading independent publisher Endeavour Press. The Immortal Madonna – Yvonne Crowe Free Kindle Edition today (20.01.2015) What’s it all a...
Music while you work?
I recently saw this quote from Paul Auster: “I’ve heard of people who write with music playing. This is unthinkable to me because the music that you’re listening to is the music of the language that y...
The 12 Suspects of Christmas – The Solution
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...
The 12 Suspects of Christmas: The Mystery – Rosie Claverton
Christmas, 1895. The Old Manor House had been in the D’Argent family for generations and, as was traditional for the season, they always invited their closest family and friends to dine w...
CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition
The CWA Margery Allingham Short Story competition was set up in 2013 to celebrate the short story and Margery Allingham’s contribution to crime writing. Supported by the Margery Allingham Society we a...
CRA Noirwich Giveaway
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...
A Fistful of Seaweed – John Bayliss
‘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...
On reinventing history for the purpose of entertainment – William Shaw
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...
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Theft of Life, Imogen Robertson
Imogen studied German and Russian at Cambridge, then spent a while working as a TV director before becoming a full-time writer. Much of her childhood was spent lost in the novels of Dorothy L. Sayer...
The Killing Club – Paul Finch
Paul Finch has trod the sodden streets of Manchester both as a cop and as a journalist. He then learned his creative writing skills by contributing television scripts to The Bill. (Often cited as th...
Dead Letters – Joan Lock
Joan’s first two books described the time she spent working as a policewoman and as a nurse. When she took up writing crime fiction, these experiences helped shape her characters such as the cha...
An Appetite For Violets – Martine Bailey
Based in Chester, Martine Bailey writes historical mysteries with a food theme. She has some impressive culinary credentials to draw on: as an amateur cook, she was a former UK Dessert Champion...
The Dark Horizon – Simon Hall
Simon Hall is a crime writer and BBC Television Crime Correspondent based in Devon. His quirky and quintessentially English books – the tvdetective series – are about a maverick televisi...
The Venetian Venture – Suzette A. Hill
After retiring to Herefordshire, Suzette A. Hill has used her time to pen the humorous ‘Revd Francis Oughterard’ quintet, plus two other titles outside that series. Happily steering clear of ‘social i...
Appetite for Murder – Linda Stratmann
Linda Stratmann has long been fascinated by historical crime, especially in the Victorian era. Having written several true crime books on the subject, she now brings her experience to a series of nove...
CRA – Giveaway
Deadly Pleasures is an anthology of brand new stories by members of the CWA, to celebrate our Diamond Jubilee. The introduction is kindly provided by Peter James, Chair of the CWA 2011-2013, an...
The Joys of Research – Evonne Wareham
Giveaway – Evonne has kindly offered a signed paperback copy of her multi award winning book – Never Coming Home. To win this great prize comment on this post letting us know your thoughts...
A J Waines – The Importance of Settings
In the third of her Featured Author posts A.J. Waines looks at the importance of settings. One of the major appeals for UK readers of Nordic Noir and Scandi Crime novels has to be the settings. In S...
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