Escaping to Find Inspiration with Sam Blake
We’re not quite escaping lockdown yet here in Ireland where I live, we can’t travel outside of the country until 19th July and our hotels and restaurants have only opened to outdoor dining this week (2nd June), but I can’t WAIT to travel again....
RIP Sue Grafton
The crime and thriller community mourns the loss of Sue Grafton. Not only was she a magnificent writer and the alphabet series, featuring doughty sleuth Kinsey Millhone, which began with A Is For Alibi in 1982 and ended just prematurely with Y Is For...
Short Story Dagger 2022
Shortlisted
Bryony Pearce
Changeling
Telos Publishing
Dagger in the Library 2022
Winner
Mark Billingham
Dagger in the Library 2022
Shortlisted
Edward Marston
Love Reading UK interviews Crime expert Barry Forshaw
As part of Love Reading UK and the CWA's collaboration for National Crime Reading Month, Liz Robinson interviews the CWA's very own Barry Forshaw. Barry, who hosts the CWA Dagger Awards evening - don't miss it this year on 1 July! - also writes on cr...
Debut Dagger 2019
Longlisted
Mairi Campbell-Jack
Self Help for Serial Killers
Music of the Night
Music of the Night is the current anthology of original short stories contributed by Crime Writers' Association members and edited by Martin Edwards, with music as the connecting theme. The aim, as always, was to produce a book which is representativ...
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