Librarians Asked to Nominate Authors for CWA Dagger in the Library 2019
Libraries are now voting for the winner of the Dagger in the Library 2019, after Martin Edwards carried off the award in 2018. The CWA’s Dagger in the Library is a prize for a body of work by a crime writer that users of libraries particularly admi...
Crime #2 at Havering Literary Festival
Isabelle Grey has published four novels in a crime series set in Essex and featuring DI Grace Fisher – Good Girls Don’t Die, Shot Through The Heart and The Special Girls. The fourth book, Wrong Way Home, a Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, is...
The CWA Diamond Dagger Winner is…..
The Crime Writers’ Association is awarding its highest honour, the CWA Diamond Dagger, to acclaimed author Peter James. During an illustrious career in writing, Peter James has proved he is a master storyteller penning 28 novels and selling 16 mill...
Reporter sleuths & crime fiction
Reporter Sleuths in Crime Fiction: Join crime author Fiona Veitch Smith in conversation with Warwickshire Libraries, Newcastle Libraries and the British Library. Warwickshire Libraries, in partnership with Newcastle Libraries and the British Libra...
The McIlvanney Prize Longlist Announced
LONGLIST ANNOUNCED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 ‘I went to Bloody Scotland and I was just knocked out…. I’ve been at literary events where a lot of people have knives sticking out their back that they ...
Festival Season is Upon Us
Doesn’t matter where in the country you are, there’s lots of criminal good fun going on. Bloody Scotland in Stirling. Noirwich in Norwich. Chiswick Book Festival. Lincoln Book Festival. Hurst Festival. Plus events in London, Newcastle, Du...
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