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Criminal Lines is back for 2015
Literary Agents A M Heath have re-launched their crime-writing prize for 2015, with the winner receiving entry to The Writers’ Workshop Festival of Writing 2015, along with £500 plus the opportunity to...
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Close To Home – Lisa Jackson
Vowing to make a fresh start, Sarah McAdams has come home to renovate the old Victorian mansion where she grew up. Her daughters, Jade and Gracie, aren’t impressed by the rundown property on the shores...
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Second Life – S. J. Watson
She loves her husband. She’s obsessed by a stranger. She’s a devoted mother. She’s prepared to lose everything. She knows what she’s doing. She’s out of control. She’s innocent. She’s guilty as sin....
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Sweet Nothing – Richard Lange
Every life is uncertain. Every choice is a danger. Set on the dark side of Los Angeles, this is a masterful collection of edge-of-your-seat tales: a prison guard must protect an inmate being tried for...
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Woman of the Dead – Bernhard Aichner
How far would you go to avenge the one you love? Blum has a secret buried deep in her past. She thought she’d left the past behind. But then Mark, the man she loves, dies. His death looks like a...
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Blog Tour: What She Left by T R Richmond
What She Left is a cleverly constructed fractured timeline novel, that re-builds the life of deceased journalist Alice Salmon, using the digital footprint left by herself and those she knew. As part...
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Nordicana 2015 – Coming Soon…
Moving from its previous February slot, Nordicana is set to return to London in June 2015. Here’s what Nordic Noir has to say about this years event… From 6th-7th June 2015, fans with a criminal...
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Britta Bolt, Brown Cafés and Amsterdam.
It’s been around 18 years since I last wandered the streets of Amsterdam for Koninginnedag (Queen’s Day) but the imagery in Britta Bolt’s Pieter Posthumus novels brings the memories flooding back…....
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Lives Lost – Britta Bolt
A minute can make all the difference… Pieter Posthumus is enjoying a quiet drink in his favourite bar when the screaming starts. A minute later, the owner of the guesthouse next door rushes in: one of...
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That was the break that was
So I’ve been away for a little while. I’ve been reading a lot, but I’ve also been celebrating a lot too. I recently turned 40 and have spent three weeks, catching up with friends, attending...
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Asked and Answered – Christopher Fowler
A while ago I got to ask a few questions of the delightful Christopher Fowler. Chris is a prolific writer of books of many genres, who is currently most notable for his series about the adventures of...
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Silent Scream – Angela Marsons
Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact had been made. Their secrets would...
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Evil Games – Angela Marsons
The greater the Evil, the more deadly the game… When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful...
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Bloody Scotland Short Story Competition – Closing 27th July
This is what the festival have to say about the competition….. The Great Agatha Christie Inspires our Short Story Competition This year marks 125 years since Agatha Christie was born, known...
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I do love a good mystery….
and I had one delivered today….. I was immediately curious when I found this inside. Which was full of intriguing things…. And very shiny proof copy of…. Squee! :D
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Heading for Harrogate
Yes, it’s that time of year again, I really can’t believe it has come around so quickly, but tomorrow I shall be heading up north for what is now the ninth time to attend the 2015 Theakston’s Old...
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The Harrogate Book Haul
Just one of the many reasons why I enjoy heading up to The Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, the free books….. This year of the twenty I brought home only one was purchased, and not by...
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Home again
It’s been two weeks since I made the journey up North to Harrogate, and it already seems a world away, and yet at the same time, for now at least, and for reasons both good and not so good, it’s is not...
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