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...
Dagger Shortlist Evening Reception
The Crime Writers’ Association will announce the shortlists for the 2017 Dagger awards at a drinks reception at Waterstones, Piccadilly (Lower Ground Floor) from 6.30pm on Wednesday July 26. Shortlists will be announced for the following Daggers: ...
Women Who Murder: An Evening with Mitzi Szereto (Vancouver, BC)
On 4 May, 2024, True crime author Mitzi Szereto will be at Indigo Langley to meet readers and sign copies of her new book release Women Who Murder: An International Collection of Deadly True Crime Tales. She’ll be joined by her special guest, contr...
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...
Festival Season is Upon Us
Doesn’t matter where in the country you are, there’s lots of criminal good fun going on. Bloody Scotland in Stirling. Noirwich in Norwich. Chiswick Book Festival. Lincoln Book Festival. Hurst Festival. Plus events in London, Newcastle, Du...
Murder Mystery evening at Norton Priory Museum
Kate Ellis will be presenting a Murder Mystery evening at Norton Priory Museum. Kate has written twenty two novels featuring black archaeology graduate, DI Wesley Peterson and his Liverpool-born boss DCI Gerry Heffernan and five crime novels with a ...
Man Booker Shortlist Includes Dagger-Listed Crime Novel
Fabulous news that the Man Booker Shortlist 2016 contains two books that can claim to be crime novels. Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh, is already shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger. The second crime novel, His Bloody Project, is by ...
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