The Crime Writers’ Association

Skulduggery in Stowmarket – crime writing festival

Join us for live author interviews at Stowmarket Library with best-selling crime novelists including CWA Diamond Dagger winner Simon Brett, Tim Weaver, Laura Purcell, Rory Clements, and more. Stowmarket Library is a vibrant part of the community that...


Paying the Bills: Financial Management for Writers. With Andrew Subramaniam and Ajay Jassal


True Crime Tales: Serial Killers and Psychopaths

Renowned criminal psychologist, guest lecturer, radio host, podcaster, and blogger Linda Sage is talking true crime to the people of Yorkshire. Linda spent forty years working in England’s top category prisons with the UK’s most notorious crim...


The Publishing Revolution: the New Hybrid Author with D Kirk and Melissa Addey 


Daggers Live! – tickets still available

The CWA announces the winners of the 2021 Daggers at 7.30pm on 1 July in an online event where we go to winners live in their living rooms: bit.ly/cwadaggers2021 Our guest speaker will be Abir Mukherjee and our M/C for the evening will be the witty ...


Noirwich Crime Writing Festival

Noirwich celebrates the reading and writing of crime fiction. In addition to bringing together some of today's top crime writing talent, the festival, associated with the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Programme, looks at the crime genr...


Mel McGrath – The Guilty Party

You did nothing. That doesn’t mean you’re innocent. On a night out, four friends witness a stranger in trouble. They decide to do nothing to help. Later, a body washes up on the banks of the Thames – and the group realises that ignoring the w...


National Crime Reading Month off to a blazing start!

National Crime Reading Month kicked off with simultaneous launches in London, Belfast and Edinburgh - appropriately in one of Waterstones flagship stores in Piccadilly; No Alibis, an independent bookshop, and in Edinburgh Central Library. In Londo...


Crime Writers in Residence – at home with PJ Quinn

The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. As half of PJ Quinn I (Pauline Kirk) write the DI Ambrose mysteries with my daughter, Jo Summers. To date, we’ve collaborated on four novels: Foul Play, Poison Pen, Close Dis...


Barbara Nadel – Displaced and Incorruptible

Displaced Irving Levy is a man with few roots and, now that he is terminally ill, is anxious to find anyone to whom he can leave his considerable property. When he learns that there may be more to the disappearance of his younger sister, who disappea...


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