Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
The Yorkshire town of Harrogate is going to be hit by a four-day crime wave from Thursday 19 July. No, they’re not staging their own mini version of last summer’s riots. Rather, Thursday sees the return of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival along…
Golf, Lawrence Block, morgues and manners
Lawrence Block with a cigar. I’ll buy that for a dollar. Lawrence Block drinking a whiskey on the rocks. You can have a buck for that too. But Lawrence Block on the golf course. Nah, I’m not buyin it. Well, actually you don’t need a…
Top five: Crime picks for Dad on Father's Day
If your old man already has a drawer full of ties, novelty socks and monogrammed hankies from previous Father’s Days, then how about giving him something a little bit more challenging? Here are stories to keep him intrigued, amused, thrilled and puzzled – five top…
World Book Night: 25 great crime reads
Well, it’s Shakespeare’s birthday and 23 April has also been designated World Book Night. While we think the charitable effort – distributing a million free books to people less fortunate – is commendable, when we looked at this year’s WBN list we couldn’t help but…
Get ready for World Book Night
Monday 23 April has been designated World Book Night 2012 and the charity effort will see 1,000,000 free books given to needy people in the United States, Ireland and Germany. It’s an effort to promote reading and to celebrate some great fiction authors, and a…
Guilty Conscience: Top five books of 2011
So, 2011 is almost at an end, and the overlords at Crime Fiction Lover have asked me to come up with my top five books of the year. The idea is that in the run-up to Christmas our site brings you regular recommendations from all…
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,…