The Crime Writers’ Association

In memoriam

The CWA celebrates the memory of each of these members, sadly no longer with us.

2024

Carolyn Caughey

David Stuart Davies

CJ Sansom

Pat O’Keeffe

Phil Rickman

2023

Eric Brown
Christopher Fowler
DJ Harrison
Marilyn Livingstone (aka half of AJ Mackenzie)
Martin Nutt
Alfie Robins

Allan James Tucker (Jim)
Alex Willis

2022

Peter Robinson
Thalia Proctor
John Hall Spencer

2021

John Malcolm
Robert Richardson
Stella Phillips
Anabel Donald
Geoffrey Bailey
Netta Martin

2020

Helen McCabe
Jennifer Palmer
Sheila Quigley
Betty Rowlands
Dorothy Simpson
Nicola Slade
Noreen Wainwright

2019

M C Beaton
Anthony Price

2018

Lesley Horton
Anthony Lejeune
Jessica Mann

2017

Marian Babson
Helen Cadbury
Colin Dexter MBE
Sue Grafton
Lesley Sharrock
Peter Walker

2016

Carole Blake
Jean Bowden
Elizabeth Edmondson
Andrea Elizabeth Frazer
J M Gregson
Tim Heald
Stuart Pawson

2015

Robert Adams
Robert Adey
Hazel Holt
Brian Innes
Jean McConnell
Ruth Rendell

2014

Meg Elizabeth Atkins
Robert Barnard
David Foster
T D Griggs
Colin Peel

2013

Bob Adams
Alex Auswaks
Gwendoline Butler
Basil Copper
Margaret Yorke

2012

Reginald Hill
Barry Musto
Rosemary Robinson

2011

Ariana Franklin
Anthony Graham
H R F Keating

2010

Clare Curzon
Lionel Davidson
Dick Francis
Peter O’Donnell
James Pattison

2009

Celia Fremlin
Susanna Yager

2008

Alex Clark Smith
Brian Cooper
Alan Dipper
Ed Hoch

2007

Peter Chambers
Jill McGown

2006

Ernest Dudley
Michael Gilbert
Elizabeth Walter

2005

T.J. Binyon
Bruce Cassiday
Sylvian Hamilton
Alan Hunter
Anne Martyn
Gerald Pollinger
Jean Pollinger
Beatrice Taylor
Chris Willis

2004

Andrea Elizabeth Badenoch
Judith Cook
Carole Anna Nelson
John North
John Weatherhead
David Williams

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