The Crime Writers’ Association

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...


Breakfast Byte – Facebook Ads: How Do You Promote To Generate Sales?

Breakfast Byte Facebook Ads workshop at the Groucho Club on Wednesday 30 January. Title: Facebook Ads: How Do You Promote To Generate Sales? Refreshments: A light breakfast is included in the ticket price. Speaker: This Byte the Book workshop will be...


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 ...


Dagger in the Library 2021

Shortlisted


Lisa Jewell


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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