Anthony Horowitz on Writing The House of Silk

Anthony Horowitz on writing The House of Silk, shortlisted for the Bestseller Dagger in the Specsavers Crime and Thriller Awards, 2012.

Chris Ewan’s Five Crime Writing Heroes

Chris Ewan is the award-winning author of The Good Thief’s Guide to… series of mystery novels. His debut, The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam, won the Long Barn Books First Novel Award and is published in 10 countries. Safe House, published this August, is his first novel with Faber.

Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2012 Shortlist

Read on to discover who’s made the shortlists for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2012!

Booknoir will be featuring extracts from all of the shortlisted authors over the next few days.

Diary of a Harrogate Virgin

Bookdagger’s Mike Stafford reflects on his experiences attending his first Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.

The Best of British Crime: Andrew Garve

The Bello imprint is celebrating the depth and history of British crime writing with the launch of theBest of British Crime Omnibus at the Harrogate Crime Festival this week.

Read an extract from Murder in Moscow, by Andrew Garve in the second of four articles on Bookdagger this week.

The Best of British Crime: Francis Durbridge

The Bello imprint is celebrating the depth and history of British crime writing with the launch of theBest of British Crime Omnibus at the Harrogate Crime Festival this week.

Read an extract from A Game of Murder, by Francis Durbridge in the first of four articles on Bookdagger this week.

No Mean City…

Craig Robertson, author of Cold grave finds Glasgow – the ‘No Mean City’ – a dark and deadly inspiration…

The Wrong Man Trailer

Watch the trailer for the brilliant debut novel from Jason Dean featuring new series character James Bishop.

Off the Beaten Track with Will Oldham

Stav Sherez, author of A Dark Redemption, on Will Oldham, aka Bonnie Prince Billy, and how a powerful anecdote became a crucial element of his latest novel.

Less is More

According to Doug Johnstone…

I’ll keep this short, because that’s the point. Less is more, and all that.

Bookdagger needs Real Readers!

We’re looking for crime, contemporary fiction and non-fiction fans for our exciting new Real Readers programme.

This is (Not) Home: Notes from an Expat

A thrilling debut-to-remember, Chris Pavone’s The Expats will keep you guessing until the very end.

Watch for a chance to win a copy in the March competition early next week.

When murder is monstrous and motiveless

Lloyd Shepherd’s The English Monster was published by Simon and Schuster on March 1 2012. In this exclusive article for Bookdagger, Lloyd ruminates on what makes a monster…

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Carrigan & Miller: The Series Begins

After two stand alone novels, as Stav Sherez writes below, conceiving a series, with a view to the long-term, throws up new challenges and requires a whole new approach to creating fiction.

ATTENTION PLEASE! Watch this, and no apologies for the profanities!

Simon Spurrier’s promotional video for A Serpent Uncoiled… and a blog.

The Lewis Man

Watch the trailer for the The Lewis Man – the follow-up to The Blackhouse, which was an international bestseller in both hardback and paperback. It is the second novel in the Lewis trilogy.

Retracing the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Part Two

A young linen draper and his family are cruelly murdered at night in their home at 29 Ratcliffe Highway in Wapping. Twelve days later, a publican and members of his household are slaughtered in similar fashion, just half a mile away. Paul Bonner’s amazing maps follow the murderous events of 200 years ago this month…

Pascal Garnier – in his own words

Pascal Garnier, who died in March 2010, was a talented novelist, short story writer, children’s author and painter. Gallic Books will publish three novels by him in 2012: The Panda Theory, How’s the Pain? and The A26. In an article for his French publisher, Zulma, Garnier described what led him to become a writer…

The Ratcliffe Highway Murder Maps, Part One

A young linen draper and his family are cruelly murdered at night in their home at 29 Ratcliffe Highway in Wapping. Twelve days later, a publican and members of his household are slaughtered in similar fashion, just half a mile away. Paul Bonner’s amazing maps follow the murderous events of 200 years ago this month…