Giveaway: Quentin Bates
Quentin Bates was our Featured Author for June. We hope you enjoyed his posts and join us in thanking him for his contributions. But we haven’t finished with the arm twisting just yet and before...
Quentin Bates – Books
The curse of the TBR pile It’s an affliction, but not necessarily a bad one. There are others that are so much worse. They’re everywhere, sneaking into corners and taking up residence, lying qu...
Quentin Bates – Ideas?
There are questions a writer will groan inwardly at hearing, while hopefully maintaining an outward smile, however glassy. Do you make any money from these books, then? That’s a good one. Then there a...
Quentin Bates – Sex
I thought that might grab your attention. What’s there to say about sex? To start with, I’m given to understand there’s a lot of it about. We humans (men, anyway) are supposedly hardwired to think abo...
Quentin Bates – Living With A Stranger
It’s almost like being married all over again. Let me clarify… I’ve been married for a long time, and only the once. But a few years ago another woman turned up and has been living with me ever since....
“The Red Death” by Abraham Kawa
‘THE RED DEATH’ BY ABRAHAM KAWA 1970. After a disturbing murder case left DI Chris Bates’ mental health shattered, he spends time recovering in an asylum before being released to a halfway house. When...
CWA Daggers Shortlist 2023 announced
The 2023 shortlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced at Crime Fest in Bristol. 2023 marks...
Crimes at Midnight by Graham Brack
Applications of Suspense Techniques in “Night Train for Berlin” – by William Burton McCormick
I’ve always had a love of European thrillers set during or just before World War II. I read The Guns of Navarone and its sequel Force Ten from Navarone when I was eleven years old, absorbing every wor...
Hawksley, Humphrey
Humphrey is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent whose assignments with the BBC have taken him to crises all over the world. His Rake Ozenna series originated when reporting from the US-R...
The Great Detectives
CWA Announce Longlists for Prestigious Crime Writing Daggers
The Crime Writers’ Association announced the much anticipated longlists for the annual Dagger awards at a reception during CrimeFest in Bristol on the evening of Friday 18 May. Several titles ap...
Morecambe & Vice Crime Writing Festival
Granite Noir for the Heart of Darkness
Fact to Fiction – Retired police duo RC Bridgestock tell it how it really is
Retirement is just a word…. Taking off the mask of the detective, which had been part of everyday life for many years, proved more difficult than we thought after leaving the police force. Five...
Killer Women Crime Writing Festival
Shetland Noir by Mary Bale
Extract from Threads of Treason and Pamela St Abbs Inspector Campbell Mysteries by Mary Bale. Thursday 12 November At about 7pm we passengers experience an extra quick journey to Sumburgh from Edinbur...
CSI Portsmouth 2014 – Maggots, drug busting and intelligence gathering
Over 100 people packed The Princess Royal Gallery at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on Saturday 8 November 2014 to hear two panel debates on crime fiction ve...
Literary Festival: Off the Shelf
The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival 3-12 October 2014
The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival attracts hundreds of the world’s leading authors, journalists, comedians, politicians, actors, broadcasters and more. Big names appearing...
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