The Crime Readers' Association

Sunday Reading: CWA Anthology

15th September 2013

Click by Alison Joseph ‘You’d know if he was dead, though, wouldn’t you? Your own husband…..’ She stared into the black water. Around her the trees dripped with recent ra...

Saturday Sixers: Best Ever Crime Novel

7th September 2013

Over the last three weeks we have asked you, the Crime Reader, to vote for the Best Ever Crime Series and Crime Writer. Today is the day to determine which is your Best Ever Crime Novel. You may choos...

Joe Geraghty and Hull – Nick Quantrill

2nd September 2013

When I started to write the first Joe Geraghty novel, I was always going to write about my home city of Hull. I’d read Ian Rankin’s Rebus series and the way Edinburgh is used as a character left...

Saturday Sixers: The Best Ever Crime Series

31st August 2013

Over three Saturdays we will be asking you, the Crime Reader, to vote for the CWA Poll – to be announced on our 60th anniversary at a special event in London. Question Two: What is the Best Ever Crime...

Saturday Sixers: The Best Ever Crime Writer

24th August 2013

Over the next three Saturdays we will be asking you, the Crime Reader, to vote for the CWA Poll – to be announced on our 60th anniversary at a special event in London. Question One: Who is the B...

Crime Poll: Your turn

19th August 2013

Three months ago the Crime Writers’ Association asked its members to answer three simple questions as part of the celebrations surrounding the Association’s 60th Anniversary. (It was found...

crimefestCRA Monday Giveaway -CrimeFest

11th August 2013

We are delighted to announce our August giveway – a complimentary weekend pass to CrimeFest 2014. CrimeFest was recently listed by the Guardian as one of the best crime writing festivals in the...

Saturday Sixers: Sixty Shades of Grey

27th July 2013

Book sales and maternity wards bloomed with the publication of Fifty Shades of Grey.  As a bit of fun, I had a look at the CWA’s Diamond Dagger award winners over the years, and wondered how some of t...

Monday Competition: Barbara Nadel

22nd July 2013

Although we have finished Crime Writing Month we are still going to run some great competitions over the next few weeks. Starting with this one a mystery selection of 3 Cetin Ikmen hardback books by t...

Saturday Sixers: On being 60

20th July 2013

The Crime Writer’s Association is 60 this year and so am I. I passed that dubious landmark just a few weeks ago.  There, that is my confession, out in the open. And while I am getting things off my ch...

Dagger Focus: CWA Dagger in the Library

19th July 2013

Belinda Bauer wins the CWA Dagger in the Library Sponsor: Dead Good, The Random House Group Belinda Bauer has won the 2013 CWA Dagger in the Library. Mobeena Khan, who chaired this year’s judges, made...

The CWA Daggers

10th July 2013

As you will have seen the Crime Writers’ Association, the sister organisation of the CRA, is gearing up for our annual Dagger Awards ceremony on Monday 15th July. It is a very exciting time of t...

Ian Rankin Giveaway

8th July 2013

As this is the last full week of Crime Writing Month 2013 we are so pleased to offer this fabulous giveaway. September sees the eagerly anticipated opening of Dark Road the first play written by Ian R...

Case Files no 5 now available to CRA members

4th July 2013

So, you like reading crime? You want to know what thrills and spills are coming your way – the books that will make your pulse pick up, even though you’re sitting down. Books inhabited by the type of...

The Low Down

28th June 2013

Writer: Richard Godwin Area:    London Day job: Full time writer  One Lost Summer is by Richard Godwin. Here, we take a look at both writer and his forthcoming work. So, why should we read it? It is a...

Martin-EdwardsMartin Edwards: Publishing a New Book

26th June 2013

How does it feel to have a new novel published, when you’ve published plenty of books before?” An interesting question, I think. Of course, the appearance of one’s very first novel is a unique a...

Leigh RussellLeigh Russell: The Story of Books

18th June 2013

From 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...

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