Skulduggery in Stowmarket – crime writing festival
Join us for live author interviews at Stowmarket Library with best-selling crime novelists including CWA Diamond Dagger winner Simon Brett, Tim Weaver, Laura Purcell, Rory Clements, and more. Stowmarket Library is a vibrant part of the community that...
An Evening with Sir Alec Jeffreys
An Evening with Sir Alec Jeffreys Join the Royal Society of Biology for an evening with Sir Alec Jeffreys on Monday 16th May 2016 at the Science Museum’s IMAX Theatre, London. The inventor of forensic DNA fingerprinting tells his story at this s...
Daggers Dinner and Awards Ceremony
This year's Daggers Dinner and Awards Ceremony will take place on 4 July, 2024, at: Leonardo Royal Hotel London City 8-14 Cooper’s Row London EC3N 2BQ The event will include a three-course gourmet dinner, and all of the Daggers festivities. Th...
Breakfast Byte – Facebook Ads: How Do You Promote To Generate Sales?
Breakfast Byte Facebook Ads workshop at the Groucho Club on Wednesday 30 January. Title: Facebook Ads: How Do You Promote To Generate Sales? Refreshments: A light breakfast is included in the ticket price. Speaker: This Byte the Book workshop will be...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Maggie Hamand
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I am a former journalist, a novelist and creative writing lecturer at the University of Hull. I studied biochemistry as a first degree and have a Masters in theology so science...
Emerging Author Dagger
Emerging Author Dagger The Emerging Author Dagger (formerly the Debut Dagger), sponsored by Fiction Feedback, is an international competition, open to anyone in the world writing in English, for a crime novel opening (max. 3,000 words) and synopsis ...
2022 winning story
Locked In - Scott Hunter There’s something singularly evil about a crime carried out in secret, don’t you think? Especially if it is repeated on a regular basis. And especially if the victim is powerless to prevent it. Let me explain my cir...
CWA Anthology Launch was December’s Hottest Party!
The CWA short story anthology, Mystery Tour, was launched among much festive merriment at the CWA Christmas Party on Dec 6 at Daunt Books, Cheapside. Fabulous venue, a fascinating assortment of authors, agents and publishers – and the wine kept on ...
Crime Writers Emerging from Lockdown with Louise Burfitt-Dons
How an escape story inspired The Secret War Some years ago when I was living in Australia I met someone whose family had escaped the Cultural Revolution. The planning required utmost secrecy for the father to organise their ‘trip to Hong Kong to...
Dead Women in Crime
Heidi James, Linda Stratmann, Kia Abdullah with Kirsty Logan. Crime fiction is littered with the bodies of women, victims of violence perpetrated almost entirely by men and often in their own homes. At the same time, more women than ever find thems...
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