The Crime Writers’ Association

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


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...


Crafting Compelling Coppers – celebrate National Crime Reading Month with the CWA

Join the Crime Writers' Association as we celebrate National Crime Reading Month on Tuesday 15 June at 7.30pm. Authors Jane Bettany (creator of DI Isabel Blood), Liz Mistry (writer of the DI Gus McGuire and Nikki Parekh series), Roz Watkins (DI Meg ...


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...


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...


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...


Join us as we take you behind the scenes of a murder investigation

Inside Justice are bringing their hugely popular Crime Live event to the BPP Law School, Waterloo, London on Thursday 10 May 2018, at 7pm. This event will appeal to those interested in law, forensic science, miscarriages of justice and police invest...


Crime and Thrillers at the Edinburgh Book Festival

The 2023 Edinburgh Book Festival features a lively lineup of authors and personalities from the mystery, crime, and thrillers genres. Catch Ragnar Jonasson and Katrin Jakobsdottir in conversation with Val McDermid. Mark Billingham and Doug Johnstone ...


CWA Christmas Party

It’s beginning to look a lot like… The supermarket shelves are full of mince pies, the lights on Oxford Street are twinkling and various celebrities are heading to the Australian jungle. This can only mean one thing. It’s time to book your t...


Crime Con – Glasgow


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