Staffordshire Serial Thrillers
Sarah Rayne will be part of Stafford Library’s ‘Crime Night’ on Wednesday 1st May – a panel/discussion group of writers helping to celebrate the ‘Staffordshire Day’ celebrations for the county. Sarah has written over 25 books to date, in...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Maggie Hamand
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I am a former journalist, a novelist and creative writing lecturer at the University of Hull. I studied biochemistry as a first degree and have a Masters in theology so science...
‘Plague’ – A Talk via Zoom by Westminster thriller author Julie Anderson
The Zoom link will be sent to you a day before the event About this Event Julie's acclaimed Westminster set crime thriller 'Plague', treads the murky banks of the River Tyburn and the plague pits. She discusses how the layers of history an...
Kemptown Bookshop
Cathy Hayward of Kemptown Bookshop talks to Elly Griffiths Cathy Hayward is only the third owner of Kemptown Bookshop, Brighton’s oldest independent bookstore. She was a long-time fan of the shop, which has been on St George’s Road since 1976,...
UK Crime Book Club with Julie Anderson
Join Julie Anderson talking with Samantha Brownley about 'Oracle' the new Cassandra Fortune novel at the virtual UK Crime Book Club. Set near the ancient Temple of Apollo at Delphi on Mount Parnassus, Greece, the novel explores the idea of justice, ...
Chiltern Kills Crime Writing Festival
Chiltern Kills is a brand-new crime writing festival taking place in Gerrards Cross, south Bucks. There will be some big names in attendance, including Vaseem Khan, Sarah Pinborough, and Mark Billingham. This is a one-day event, so no need to book a ...
Dagger in the Library
Dagger in the Library The Dagger in the Library 2024 is closed. Thank you for voting! The Dagger in the Library is a prize for a body of work by an established writer of crime fiction or non-fiction who has long been popular with borrowers from...
Crime at the Castle – 24th February 2018
A fabulous all-day event at Glamis Castle near Dundee, with a full programme of author speakers, writing sessions held over four time slots. You choose who you want to listen to and when. As the castle won’t yet have opened for the season, many of...
Private: What a Difference a Dagger Makes: Debut Dagger winner Bill Crotty tells of doors that have opened since the award
I had never won anything in my life. Absolutely nothing. Lucky dips were never lucky; not a single raffle ever ended with my ticket being called. School sports day was a wasteland. No kind of race did I ever win: sack, three-l...
Take Three Crime Writers: Julie Wassmer, William Shaw and Lisa Cutts
Wassmer, an Eastenders writer for 20 years, now has a huge following with her crime series. In MurderFest, Pearl Nolan investigates the murder of a famous author at an Arts Festival. Val Mc Dermid says of Shaw’s atmospheric Kent mysteries ‘if yo...
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