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Charity short story competition

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Britain’s Next Bestseller has teamed up with Scriggler.com to launch a new short story competition for aspiring crime writers. It opened today and runs until 31 January 2015, and they’re looking for 10 fantastic crime stories to fill a charity anthology. Stories need to be…
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Win a book every Saturday with CFL

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Head to our Facebook page on any given Saturday, and you can win a free book from the CFL library. Today (2 August 2014), for instance, you can win our advance copy of Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes, as well as an exclusive card signed…
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Irène competition winners

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A month ago we posted a competition on our site offering you the chance to win copies of Irène and Alex by Pierre Lemaitre, plus £50-worth of crime novels from MacLehose Press. That was the first prize, and we also had five runner-up packs containing copies…
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WIN Irène, Alex plus crime books worth £50

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Co-winner of the CWA International Dagger in 2013, Pierre Lemaitre is the French crime writer to watch at the moment. Following the success of his fast-paced, gritty Parisian thriller Alex, Quercus is releasing the prequel, Irène, today for Kindle! To celebrate, the publisher is giving…
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Win 150 ebooks from Sainsbury's

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Not to be outdone by Tesco or Amazon, UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has its own online bookshop which is selling ebooks across platforms. Whether you’ve got an iPad, Nexus, Kobo or Sony eReader, you can fill it up with crime fiction at the Sainsbury’s ebook…
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CIS: The Agatha Christie birthday quiz!

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Win a fantastic prize! On 15 September 1890, arguably Britain’s favourite crime fiction writer of all time was born in Torquay, Devon. So, today we’re celebrating the birthday of Agatha Christie. And with it we’ve got a quiz to win a superb illustrated edition of…
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