The Crime Writers’ Association

Historia Live: Wicked Ireland

‘Historia Live – Dublin’, is an exciting new series of literary events in Ireland highlighting historical fiction, in association with the Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. The f...


From Idea to Publication and Beyond

Come see Linda Stratmann and ask those questions you've always wanted to know the answers too - from being an author to getting your novel published. Linda will also be discussing her new crime novel 'A True and Faithful Brother'. Although the even...


Crime in the North East Festival

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 Univ...


Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition 2014

Shortlisted


Gail Williams

Last Shakes


Private: Trust your gut: how a Debut Dagger longlisting led to a publishing deal

People often ask me where the initial idea for “Trust Me, I’m Dead” came from, and I talk about an article I read many years ago where one snippet caught my eye, and then stuck in my brain. It was a small thing, about a man who’d left behind ...


Portsmouth BookFest & MysteryFest 2018

Portsmouth BookFest runs from Monday 12th February to Saturday 3rd March. MysteryFest is on 3 March This year sees the city’s eighth book festival, taking place at venues throughout the city, and it will present a varied programme of events – as ...


Reading Party with Lesley Thomson: The Distant Dead

Reading Party with Lesley Thomson: The Distant Dead Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London. From the number 1 bestselling author of The Detective’s Daughter. London, ...


The Secrets of Successful Crime Writing with Pauline Rowson

Acclaimed Crime Author Pauline Rowson is the author of nineteen crime novels set against the backdrop of the sea on the South Coast of England. Fourteen of these feature the rugged and flawed Portsmouth copper, Inspector Andy Horton with Dead Passage...


Norfolk & Norwich Festival – Jeffery Deaver – The Cutting Edge

Thursday 22 May, 7.30pm The Adnams Spiegeltent, Chapelfield Gardens £12 / concessions from £7.50 We welcome number-one Sunday Times bestselling author and master of suspense Jeffery Deaver to Norwich UNESCO City of Literature. The Cutting Edge s...


St Hilda’s College Crime Fiction Weekend

The Crime Fiction Weekend at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, celebrates its 30th year in 2023 with an all-star line-up of bestselling authors. Centred on this year’s theme, ‘Celebrations: innocent parties, guilty pleasures’, our guest speakers wi...


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