The Crime Writers’ Association

Simon Scarrow in conversation with David Young

On Thursday 8 April, 7pm, the CWA is hosting multi-million bestselling author Simon Scarrow, talking about his new novel, Blackout, with David Young, winner of the CWA Historical Dagger with Stasi Child. Blackout, Simon’s first crime thriller, in...


An Evening of Cyber-Espionage with Antony Johnston – was 28 February, now 15 March

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO BAD WEATHER THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THURSDAY 15 MARCH An Evening of Cyber-Espionage with Antony Johnston Presented by Imagined Things & Destination Venus Antony will read from his acclaimed new spy thriller...


The Pinocchio Brief and Beyond… 21st February

Leeds born Abi Silver will be talking about growing up in Leeds and how her legal background and other life experiences shaped her writing of The Pinocchio Brief, her acclaimed debut novel (a legal thriller with an AI twist), which was published by L...


Kate Ellis headlines at Crediton Literary Festival with a crime focus

A one-day Literary Festival on Saturday 5 June presented online via Zoom. Sixteen authors are speaking on a range of genres throughout the day, with a 10pm crime panel, Victoria Dowd at 1.30pm and Kate Ellis headlining in the afternoon. Tickets are f...


The CWA Presents: Criminal Minds #1

Criminal Landscapes: Geographic Profiling & Crime Mapping - Dr Spencer Chainey Dr Spencer Chainey, UCL lecturer and co-author of GIS (Geographical Information System) and Crime Mapping, will discuss how vital understanding the physical landsca...


The CWA Presents: Criminal Minds #3

Disrupting Criminal Patterns: Crime Science and Cybercrime – Vaseem Khan Vaseem works at the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, and will provide insight and understanding into the activities of cyber criminals and what’s b...


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...


Join JS Lark to celebrate the release of her 30th novel and fourth thriller, Her Last Lie. Doors open at 6.30pm. Tickets are £6, which includes refreshments, a glass of wine, and the chance to purchase signed copies of Her Last Lie at a discoun...


Escaping from Lockdown with JC Briggs

Much I have I travelled in the realms of gold … So wrote John Keats in his sonnet On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, which book took him to ‘goodly states and kingdoms.’ Reading took him to far-flung places where he would never go, and im...


Harry Navinski Book Launch


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