The Crime Readers' Association

Crime in the North East Festival

Layout 1

  22 & 23 February 2019 Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, Newcastle University.   Whodunnit? NCLA in the frame for crime fiction festival. One of the most popular and intriguing forms of fiction comes under suspicion at Newcastle University […]

Top Crime Writers Headlining at Granite Noir

Music Hall, Aberdeen , United Kingdom

Granite Noir Crime Book Festival in North East Scotland is back for 2020. There will be a huge selection of author conversations, exhibitions, local history talks, film screenings, music, workshops and more, all inspired by crime fiction. Aberdeen – steeped […]

The Killer Women Festival of Crime Writing & Drama

Brown's Courtrooms, Covent Garden, London , United Kingdom

CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS   Now in its fourth year, the capital’s only exclusively author-led festival will take place on Sunday 15 March 2020 - at Brown’s Courtrooms, Covent Garden, London. The 2020 festival will include appearances by, amongst others, […]

Crime Writers at Oxford Indie Book Festival

Wesley Memorial Hall, Oxfore New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

POSTPONED UNTIL 13 JUNE. Crime writers and CWA members Peter Tickler, Debrah Martin and Jake Lynch will be joining other indie and hybrid authors in a celebration of independent writing and publishing in Oxford on Saturday 13th June. There will […]

UK Crime Book Club with Julie Anderson

Join Julie Anderson talking with Samantha Brownley about 'Oracle' the new Cassandra Fortune novel at the virtual UK Crime Book Club. Set near the ancient Temple of Apollo at Delphi on Mount Parnassus, Greece, the novel explores the idea of […]

Oracle with Julie Anderson

Come along to this author talk about a new thriller set in ancient Delphi which explores issues relevant today. About this Event Oracle by our guest, author Julie Anderson, is about justice - from the brutal, archaic form of blood vengeance prevalent […]

Jacquie Rogers Reads at Colwall Arts Festival

Artists of all stripes, including writers, will be exhibiting and performing at the inaugural Colwall Arts Festival in Herefordshire, on the weekend of 7/8 August (11am-5pm).   CWA member Jacquie Rogers will be selling her books and will give several […]

In-person book-signing event in California

On 21 August at 2pm Pacific Time, author Sheila Lowe will talk in person about what led her to write her latest Claudia Rose Forensic Handwriting mystery, #8, Dead Letters, and answer questions about handwriting. It's a free, i-person book […]

Bryan Mason on Writing about Serial Killers in Hotwells, Bristol

Bryan Mason will be in conversation with Prof. Leroy White from the University of Exeter about Bryan's debut novel Shaking Hands with the Devil. Bryan will cover areas including the long genesis between drafting and getting published, characterisation and whether […]

Free

Murder at the Seaview Hotel online book launch

Book Launch (online) as part of Sunderland Libraries Literature Festival Murder at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young Join Sunderland's best-selling author Glenda Young online as she launches her debut cosy crime Murder at the Seaview Hotel, published by Headline. […]

‘Listen with Lindsey’

'Listen with Lindsey' is a Zoom event hosted by bestselling mistress of Roman crime, Lindsey Davis. On the first or second Tuesday of the month, and in November Tuesday 2nd, Lindsey hosts a free event where she reads from her […]

Perfect Crime One-Day Festival, Liverpool

Liverpool's First Ever Crime Fiction Day Perfect Crime UK is LIVE and IN PERSON this November, and have we got a lineup for you! Ann Cleeves, creator of Vera and Shetland, will be appearing in two sessions at this all-day event […]

£58

Book Launch

Join @Jennie_Ensor for the online book launch of her thrilling book Silenced by @Jennie_Ensor and of The Dark Side of Christmas, an anthology of twisted winter tales by @hobeckbooks authors. Crime fiction and thriller fans, bloggers and authors, please come […]