St. Hilda’s Crime Fiction Weekend 2024
A Dance to the Music of Crime: the artful path to murder A crime fiction weekend like no other – from its beginnings, St Hilda’s Crime Fiction Weekend has drawn readers from all over the world to Oxford to hear their favourite authors explore ...
CrimeCon: Festival of True Crime Comes Live to London
CrimeCon, the world’s biggest true crime festival, will once again be live and in central London this autumn: across the weekend of 25-26 September. True crime fans, starved of in-person events, will be able to meet authors, publishers, documentary...
Gold Dagger 2021
Winner
Chris Whitaker
We Begin at the End
Zaffre, Bonnier
Flappers, fops and murder: writing crime fiction in the jazz age
Newcastle author Fiona Veitch Smith, whose debut historical crime novel, The Jazz Files, has been shortlisted for this year’s Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger Award, will be reading from The Jazz Files and her latest book in the Poppy De...
CWA 2014 Dagger in the Library Award winner announced
The winner of the CWA’s Dagger in the Library award has been announced at an event at Waterstones Piccadilly. Unlike most other literary prizes, the Dagger in the Library honours an author’s body of work to date rather than a single title, and an...
First Monday Crime Writing Special in London Feb 6
First Monday is a monthly crime fiction/thriller social night held in Central London. A mix between a social evening and a literary festival panel, First Mondays offer the crime fiction community – readers, writers and industry professionals – a ...
CWA Dagger Awards – Shortlist
The Crime Writers’ Association has unveiled the shortlisted authors for five categories in the 2015 Dagger awards during an official reception at this year’s CRIMEFEST in Bristol. Authors, publishers and delegates assembled to hear the Dag...
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 Debuts: What are you going to call it?
Choosing the title of your novel is almost as big a decision as deciding to write it in the first place. Do you go for something quirky and run the risk of people not understanding it – or choose a more obvious title which then doesn’t sound inte...
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