Andrew Martin wins CWA historical crime fiction award
The Crime Writer’s Association has chosen The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin as the winner of its annual Ellis Peters Award. Telling the story of railway detective Jim Stringer, it takes place amongst the horrors and blasted muddy trenches of the Western Front during World…
Off the Record
Crime Fiction Lover’s own Luca Veste – aka Guilty Conscience – has edited a brand new book for charity called Off the Record. Inside you’ll find 38 short stories by crime writers including Neil White, Heath Lowrance, Chris Rhatigan, Paul D Brazill, McDroll and Julie…
The Killing: the book
Have you been watching series two of The Killing on BBC4? Maybe you saw the first Danish series which took place in Copenhagen, or the American adaptation set in Seattle? With a plot revolving around a missing teenage girl, how her Muslim schoolteacher is suspected…
Thrillers4U competition
If you fancy yourself as a bit of a sleuth, or a puzzle-solver at least, head over to the website Thrillers4U where they’re holding a wordy competition to win books by a range of authors. Each day this week a new question will be released…
NTN: The Woman in Black
Written by Kerry Wilkinson — The Woman in Black is the third, and latest, Jessica Daniel book. It follows Locked In and Vigilante which, until very recently, occupied the top two positions in the Crime, Thriller & Mystery section of Amazon’s Kindle bookstore, and have…
NTN: Kerry Wilkinson interviewed
By day Kerry Wilkinson is a sports journalist, but in his spare time he decided to challenge himself and write a crime novel. What he came up with was Locked In, the first Jessica Daniel novel. Rather than send it off to agents and publishers,…
NTN: Jennifer Hillier talks about Creep
Do you really know the people you’re closest to? It’s a question thriller writers often toy with and it’s one that’s central to Canadian author Jennifer Hillier’s first novel, the suitably titled Creep. In it, psychology professor Dr Sheila Tao becomes the victim of one…