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The Old Religion

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Written by Martyn Waites — A rural community, cut off, left behind and no longer benefiting from the nation’s wider prosperity. A place with its own way of doing things, traditions and beliefs – which includes a distrust of outsiders. Down on their luck, drastic…
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New prize for BAME crime authors

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Though writers like Lionel Shriver might not like it, Penguin Random House has made a commitment to reflecting Britain’s ethnic diversity in the writers it signs. As part of that intention, imprint Harvill Secker has joined forces with the crime fiction festival Bloody Scotland to…
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Do you believe?

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On the Radar — There’s a bit of a religious theme emerging among some of the books in this week’s new crime fiction report. In Martyn Waites’ latest, ancient Celtic beliefs come to the fore, while we could probably make a convent-ional joke about nuns…
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Take a seat in the Oval Office

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Former US president Bill Clinton and American crime author James Patterson will be promoting their joint writing venture – The President is Missing – by giving crime fiction readers the chance to visit the Oval Office next week. Well, not the Oval Office, but a…
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