The Crime Writers’ Association

Kate Griffin: The Kitty Peck Mysteries

The Kitty Peck Mysteries (2016) (A book in the Kitty Peck series) An omnibus of novels by Kate Griffin Kitty Peck is taking on the underworld of London’s East End. The Music Hall Murders: It’s 1880 and dancing girls are going missing from ‘P...


Alis Hawkins’ Indie Bookshop Tour – Machynlleth

Pen’rallt Bookshop, Machynlleth: Alis Hawkins is celebrating National Crime Reading Month and the publication of In Two Minds, the second in her Teifi Valley Coroner historical crime series by visiting all of Wales’s independent bookshops. ...


Slaughter in Southwold Crime Writers Festival

Join Southwold Libraries for a criminally good weekend of author talks, a murder mystery dinner and a crime quiz. Featuring CWA authors William Shaw, Lesley Thomson, Louise Candlish, Rory Clements, Cara Hunter, Dagger in the Library winner Kate Ellis...


Author benefits

Your benefits Visitors to our website can read all about the wide range of benefits we offer our members, but as an existing member you can find out how to make the most of yours here. Benefits summary Members' bulletin Red Herrings, plu...


Librarians Asked to Nominate for CWA Dagger in the Library 2018

Libraries are now voting for the winner of the Dagger in the Library 2018, after Mari Hannah took the award in 2017. The CWA’s Dagger in the Library is a prize for a body of work by a crime writer that users of libraries particularly admire. It is ...


Crime Science versus Crime Fiction: Exploding the Myths

Thursday 30 August 6pm-8pm, at the prestigious Royal Society in London. Join Val McDermid, Elly Griffiths, Vaseem Khan, Imran Mahmoud, Professor Ruth Morgan, Professor Richard Wortley, and Barry Forshaw for a truly unique occasion. Crime fiction i...


Victoria Taylor – Haven

Welcome to Haven; a community of families living together in isolation from the outside world. No-one is allowed into this alternative life- except perhaps the occasional teenage girl to bring in a new bloodline for their sons. Becky, a private inves...


Lindsey Davis talks online about latest Flavia Albia novel A Comedy of Terrors

Online through Online Teams at Hertfordshire Libraries on Tuesday 9 November at 7pm. Bestselling 'mistress of Roman Crime', Lindsey Davis talks about A Comedy of Terrors, set in Ancient Rome. The next book in the thrilling, immersive Flavia Albia s...


Lindsey Davis talks online about latest Flavia Albia novel A Comedy of Terrors

A Cardiff Library Open Space event on Thursday 9 November. How does a writer bring to life ancient Rome with all its grime and grandeur, scheming and backstabbing? Hear from award-winning novelist Lindsey Davis as she joins us online to chat about n...


What’s Your Poison?

What’s Your Poison? 2018 – Heffers' celebrated summer crime and mystery fiction party is back! Featuring a selection of hand-picked authors, come along for a lively evening of readings, book chat and signing. This year’s treat of a line-up feat...


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