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• It’s not only the Chancellor of the Exchequer who needs to appreciate our septuagenarians more…

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  Following the publication of my first novel, Twelve Secrets , I was regularly asked about my inspiration for the novel’s lead...

• Extract from The Sins of Our Fathers by ,Åsa Larsson

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  District Prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson was standing at her height-adjustable desk when Sergeant Tommy Rantakyrö stuck his head in...

• Introducing Keera Duggan by Robert Dugoni - Extract from Her Deadly Game

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  Keera Duggan peered across the King County courtroom to the swinging wooden door and willed her father to walk in. Leaving him to...

• Crimewave Heads to Bristol

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    A crimewave is headed to Bristol as CrimeFest sees more than 150 authors take part in the crime fiction convention this May....

• Barking Up the Right Tree with Leigh Russell

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  Part of the excitement of writing fiction is the seemingly never ending stream of challenges this poses for the writer. What is driving...

• Left Coast Crime 2023 Left Award Winners

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    The Lefty Awards were announced on Saturday night at the Left Coast Crime Convention in Tucson, Arizona.  Lefty...

• CrimeFest Programme

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    The Crimefest Programme has been announced. The full programme can be found here . Thursday 11 May 2023 13:30 – 14:20...

• The British Book Awards shortlists 2023

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    The British Book Awards shortlists have been announced! The complete shortlists can be found here .  Crime and...

• 2023 ITW Thriller Award nominations

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    Best Hardcover Novel The Violence by Delilah S. Dawson (Del Rey) Things We Do in The Dark by Jennifer Hillier...

• 2022 Hammett Prize Shortlist

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    The International Association of Crime Writers, North America have announced the 2022 Hammett Prize Shortlist.  The...

• Charlotte Duckworth on The inspiration behind The Wrong Mother

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  The Wrong Mother is my fifth psychological suspense. Since my first novel, The Rival , was published, I’ve released a new novel...

• “She looked a right miserable cow in that photo” - Behind the celebrity headlines we love! ny L C North

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  I’ve always had a certain fascination with celebrities. The who is dating who, going where, doing what, lure of glossy magazines. And based...

• CrimeFest Announce 2023 Award Shortlists

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    CrimeFest, one of Europe’s leading crime writing conventions, has announced the shortlists for its annual awards. Now in...

• Crime Programme at the FT Oxford Literary Festival

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    The Oxford Literary Festival once have again got a crime fiction programme. The programme can be found here . The...

• Barry Award Nominations 2023

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    Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine have announced the Barry Award Nominations for 2023.  Novels in each category are...

• The Hotel That Inspired the Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson

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  A few years ago, I spent three nights by myself at an old resort hotel in Maine. The reason I was at this hotel (the name of which I’ll...

• Extract from The Writing Retreat by Julia Bratz

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   Chapter 5 The   shout   from   the   conductor   startled   me   out   of...

• Off to Bay Tales!!!

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    This is the second year that Bay Tales is taking place and initially when I got asked to Chair a panel last year my first...

• When the Locked-room Itself Wants to Kill You. by Kate Simants

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    It was a kind of masochism in a way, writing a locked-room thriller in the height of lockdown when the last thing I – and everyone...