Launch event for The Peat Dead by Allan Martin
Book launch with Allan Martin, introduced by Douglas Skelton Islay. Remote and peaceful. Until a spade finds a human hand, a pointer to a crime. And under the peat, five corpses, unnamed, executed. Inspector Angus Blue builds his team. The evidence ...
Wild Words Festival
A Brand New Festival … It’d be a Crime to Miss it! Wild Words Festival is a brand new literary festival in Cuffley, Hertfordshire, taking place over the Jubilee Weekend of 3–5 June 2022. Featuring a host of true crime and crime fiction write...
Private: Dagger Awards to Carry Cash Prizes and Open to Authors to Self-Nominate from 2023
The CWA Daggers – synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century – is set to again award cash prizes beginning in 2023, for titles published and nominated in 2022. Detail of the amounts will be announced next year. The CWA is delig...
Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival
The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is back this July! We are looking forward to welcoming you back to our live event here in Harrogate at our home The Old Swan Hotel, and have a programme bursting with unmissable talks and panel discu...
Newcastle Noir – Step Back in Time
Talking about the mix of crime and history with Nicola Ford, Lesley Thomson, Oscar de Muriel and Fiona Veitch Smith. There is no mystery about where the North’s crime fiction fans will soon be heading – Newcastle Noir is back. The hugel...
Escaping from Greece with Jason Monaghan
In an ideal world that should be ‘Escaping to Greece’, as like so many other Brits I’m just longing for some sunshine and warm sea. The closest I’ve come so far this pandemic is organising ‘Greek Nite’ for my family bubble, with kebabs, d...
Debut Dagger 2019
Longlisted
Mairi Campbell-Jack
Self Help for Serial Killers
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction 2022
Shortlisted
Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of Pain
Pan Macmillan / Picador
Debut Dagger 2021
Shortlisted
Jennifer Wilson O’Raghallaigh
Mandatory Reporting
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