Crime Writers appoint Libraries Champion
The Crime Writers’ Association has appointed its first Libraries Champion, Ruth Dudley Edwards. Ruth and the CWA will work with libraries nationwide to support the public library network, promote the value of reading for people of all ages and from...
Granite Noir 2023
Granite Noir returns for 2023 with a thrilling line up of suspenseful crime, gothic horror and murderous music. Join us in Aberdeen this February for a packed programme, with particular focus on the Gothic. This year, Granite Noir welcomes writers...
First Monday
The next First Monday event is being held at the City University on 4th December from 6.30pm. The event this month is a real holiday treat! Not only do we have a cracking panel- Louise Jensen, Chris Whitaker, Susi Holliday, Mel McGrath, moderated by...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Jem Tugwell
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I’m a crime fiction author with a Crime Writing MA from City University. No Signal is the second book in the iMe series and follows my debut novel Proximity. In a past life,...
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 ...
CWA Daggers 2017 Awarded to The Dry, Spook Street and Tall Oaks
The 2017 winners of the prestigious CWA Daggers were announced at a gala dinner sponsored by publishers Pan Macmillan at the Grange City Hotel, Cooper’s Row, London on Thursday 26 October. The CWA Daggers, the crème de la crème of crime-writing a...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with John Dean
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. A journalist by trade, I worked as a crime reporter on newspapers for part of my career, which gave me ample material for my crime novels. I ran my own business for 21 years, s...
Norfolk & Norwich Festival – Jeffery Deaver – The Cutting Edge
Thursday 22 May, 7.30pm The Adnams Spiegeltent, Chapelfield Gardens £12 / concessions from £7.50 We welcome number-one Sunday Times bestselling author and master of suspense Jeffery Deaver to Norwich UNESCO City of Literature. The Cutting Edge s...
CWA Conference – York 2023
Booking has now opened for the CWA Conference 2023 to be held in York, 21 – 23 April. This is an opportunity for CWA members, old and new, to meet face to face and have some criminally good fun! It will be held at the Raddison Park Inn Hotel, nestl...
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