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The Big Read with Mari Hannah
Big Read Celebrates Ian Rankin in Landmark Year The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is on tour this summer with its ninth Big Read, hosting free reading group events across Yorkshire. The 2017 Big Read is Ian Rankin’s breakthrough R...
The Life of Crime, with Martin Edwards
Martin Edwards won the highest honour in UK crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger, for his outstanding contribution to the genre. He is President of the Detection Club, a former Chair of the CWA, consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics a...
Become a crime scene investigator for the day or night …
For all real -life crime fans and forensic science enthusiasts comes 4 exclusive events which reveal the wonders of forensic science in crime scene detection. Join eminent forensic scientists Tracy Alexander and Jo Millington as they guide you throu...
CWA Presents: Walking Through a Crime Scene
Part 1 – 'Securing the Scene' with Graham Bartlett and Kate Bendelow Learn with the Crime Experts 22 April 7.30pm Tickets: http://bit.ly/SecureTheScene The CWA minds behind February's Blending Fact and Fiction have put together a thrilling three-...
Countdown to the Daggers on 22 October
Free tickets are available from Thursday 15 Oct for the virtual awards ceremony of the 2020 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers, which honour the very best in crime writing. The oldest awards in the genre, the CWA Daggers have been synonymous ...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with AJ Waines
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. My name is AJ Waines. I used to be a psychotherapist and have an irrepressible curiosity over the secrets people keep, their hidden motives for radical actions and the ‘masks...
Writers in Residence – at home with Rachel Sargeant
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I’m a full-time author, living in Gloucestershire. Brought up in Lincolnshire, I have also lived in London, Shropshire, Germany and Wales and like to feature places I know i...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with SM Hardy
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I live in Torquay with my husband and spent twenty-eight years working for a major bank. After taking voluntary redundancy in 2001 I spent another fourteen or so years working ...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Sarah Linley
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. The Beach is my debut novel. It is a psychological suspense set in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Yorkshire Dales. I like to travel and the places I have visited provide ...
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