Peter Tickler: the Tickler’s Jam Murders
Peter Tickler mixes crime fiction with family history in The Tickler's jam Murders. Tickler's Jam was supplied to the British troops during the first world war. Soldiers sang songs about it. Cartoonists joked about it, and it became a household name...
AGM 2023
AGM 2023 Our AGM will take place on Saturday 20 May at 10am via Zoom. In recent years these meetings have lasted well under an hour. Here is the meeting link: Time: May 20, 2023 10:00 AM London https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87610906851?pwd=d...
Take Three Crime Writers: Julie Wassmer, William Shaw and Lisa Cutts
Wassmer, an Eastenders writer for 20 years, now has a huge following with her crime series. In MurderFest, Pearl Nolan investigates the murder of a famous author at an Arts Festival. Val Mc Dermid says of Shaw’s atmospheric Kent mysteries ‘if yo...
UK’s biggest prize fund to celebrate literature in 2018 – Society of Authors awards open for entries
The Society of Authors starts the search for next year’s recipients of the UK’s biggest literary prize fund. The Society of Authors is inviting entries for its 2018 Authors’ Awards. Run by authors for authors, the prizes make up the UK’s bigg...
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 ...
WHSmith Cardiff: Thorne Moore and Judith Barrow
Another Saturday in May, another pair of Crime Cymru authors ready to meet and greet and sign their books at WHSmiths in Cardiff. Today it’s Domestic Noir day, with Thorne Moore, author of psychological mysteries including A Time For Silence and J...
2024 Dagger Nominations Open
Have you published an award-worthy book in 2023? The deadline for nominating and submitting books for the annual Daggers is November 15. Has your publisher nominated your book? If not, now is a good time to nudge them. Traditionally published a...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Katherine Stansfield
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I’m originally from Cornwall and now live in Cardiff. Cornwall inspires much of my writing – I’m a bit obsessed with its history and folk tales. I write the historical cr...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Helen Sedgwick
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I am a research physicist turned author and I live in the Scottish highlands. I’ve recently moved to crime writing after publishing two novels that could be called literary ...
Crime Fighter Turned Crime Writer – Meet the Author
A public talk about Roger A. Price’s time in the police, an insight into the world of organised crime and how that drives his fictional pen Roger served for over thirty-one years with the Lancashire Constabulary, the Regional Crime Squad and the Na...
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