by Erin Mitchell | Apr 26, 2024 | Awards, Features
Harrogate International Festivals has announced the 18 titles longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024, now in its twentieth year. The longlist is voted for by an academy of crime writing authors, agents, editors, reviewers and members of...
by Elise Cooper | Apr 26, 2024 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Under The Paper Moon Evelyn Bishop and Nick Gallagher Book 1 Kensington Pub April 23rd, 2024 Under The Paper Moon by Shaina Steinberg is a fun read. Between the scenes of WWII and the murder of someone in 1948 this blends a mystery and thriller. There is love,...
by Erin Mitchell | Apr 25, 2024 | Awards, Features
The 2024 longlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous...
by Erin Mitchell | Apr 25, 2024 | Events
CrimeFest, one of Europe’s leading crime writing conventions, has announced the shortlists for its annual awards. The awards began 16 years ago when CrimeFest launched in 2008; they honour the best crime books released in the UK in the last year, and feature the...
by Elise Cooper | Apr 19, 2024 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Four Minutes Omega Team Book 1 April 2nd, 2024 Blackstone Pub Tom Clancy’s Act of Defiance Jack Ryan Novel Book 24 G. P. Putnam’s Sons May 21st, 2024 Four Minutes by Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson is a new techno-thriller series. It is different than most...
by Kim Hays | Apr 16, 2024 | Behind the Book, Features
At the start of my latest Swiss mystery, A Fondness for Truth, Andi Eberhart is riding her bicycle home from curling practice when she is killed in a hit-and-run. Since her death turns out to be murder, readers hoping to solve the crime will want to learn more about...
by Timothy Miller | Apr 6, 2024 | Behind the Book, Features
There wasn’t supposed to be a third book. I mean, a second Sherlock Holmes book made sense, because I had already written it, lo these many years ago, as a screenplay. So my second book actually inspired my first one. that was alright. That was cool. And no, my third...
by Elise Cooper | Apr 5, 2024 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
She’s Not Sorry Mary Kubica April 2nd, 2024 Harper Collins Pub She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica is a suspenseful thriller with a compelling twist. The characters are gripping although unreliable. The main character is Meghan Michaels who is like any single...
by Philip Miller | Apr 2, 2024 | Features, Five Things
Barnard Castle I come from a market town in the north east of England. The town in The Hollow Tree, Ullathorne, is not Barney (as we call it), and Tyrdale is not Teesdale. Nor is the school in the book my school (Teesdale Comprehensive). But, of course, there are...
by Dana Perry | Apr 1, 2024 | Five Things
If you want to be a writer, you need to read first. Read a lot. That advice coms from none other than Stephen King who says in his book On Writing: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have time (or the tools) to write.” King has also said that he reads –...
