Diamond Dagger winner 2015 to be announced
“I value that brooch more than anything else I own apart from for my wedding ring.” – Sarah Paretsky, Diamond Dagger winner 2002 The Diamond Dagger is our award for lifetime achievement. It has been awarded every year...
Alison Layland, meet the Author.
"The devastating effects of climate change are brought terrifyingly close to home in a gripping psychological novel." With the climate and ecological emergency an increasingly important topic at the moment, what better than a psychological thriller s...
Meet The Author – Alison Layland
"The devastating effects of climate change are brought terrifyingly close to home in a gripping psychological novel." With the climate and ecological emergency an increasingly important topic at the moment, what better than a psychological thriller s...
Staying Accountable
Even writers don’t feel like writing all of the time. When you’re part-way through your book and the rest of it stretches out ahead of you like an insurmountable task, the temptation to do something else instead can become strong, and if you’ve...
Short story guide
Short story guide We accept short story submissions for the CRA website, to provide you with a platform to win over new readers and expand your fan base. It might also be useful to showcase your writing skills if you’re looking for a new agent or ...
Festival Time!
There are plenty crime-writing and general book and literary festivals going on in June. They’re mentioned on the Crime Reading Month website above, but just to bring them to your attention: Crossing the Tees: http://www.crossingthetees.org Slaugh...
Crime-writing festivals star in Radio4 Short Cuts
In the month that thousands of fiction fans head to Yorkshire for the Harrogate Crime Festival, this new short story series, Short Cuts, from BBC Radio 4 celebrates the very particular atmosphere of such festivals. It’s often said that there is...
Val McDermid Honoured for Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction
On Thursday 21 July, Val McDermid was announced the winner of the seventh Theakston Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award. Sara Paretsky, Lynda La Plante, Ruth Rendell, PD James, Colin Dexter and Reginald Hill are former recipi...
Author Event with David Hodges: A Life of Crime
POSTPONED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS. Updated details to follow. Set in the mist-shrouded marshlands of the Somerset Levels, the first in David's series of Crime Novels featuring feisty D.S. Kate Lewis appeared in 2011, with the latest in the series,...
CWA Dagger Awards Gala Dinner
THURSDAY 26 OCTOBER 2017 GRANGE CITY HOTEL, LONDON EC3N 6.30pm for 7pm This year we are very excited to announce our after dinner speaker will be the creator and writer of TVs Death in Paradise Robert Thorogood. Robert will be joined by Barry Forsha...
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