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.

Bloomsbury launches short story competition for budding crime writers

In this Year of the Short Story, Bloomsbury Publishing, in association with the Writers and Artists Yearbook, is launching a competition challenging writers to create a crime story in a 1000 words or less.

A Night of Crime in Belgravia

On Wednesday February 8th, come and hear three of the UK’s finest crime writers discussing their work at Belgravia Books in the heart of London.

CWA Dagger Awards 2011

The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2011 were revealed earlier this month.

Shortlists announced for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2011

Have you read any of the candidate titles? If so, don’t miss your chance to vote…

Bromley Literary Festival’s day of crime!

Looking some criminally good entertainment on Saturday 18th June? Come along to Crime Writers’ Question Time & Signing: 3-4.30pm, Bromley Library Hall, sponsored by Bookdagger.

Win the chance to be a character in a new Chris Carter novel!

Chris Carter knows serial killers.

Detective Robert Hunter catches them. And YOU could be the next victim of one…

Bookdagger’s Real Readers NEED YOU!

We’re looking for fans of crime and thrillers for our exciting Real Readers programme.

The latest 4 titles for our members have been confirmed… titles by R.J. Ellory, Peter Straub, Andrew Pepper and Alan Bradley.

CWA Daggers Award Winners

The winners of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold, Ian Fleming Steel, and John Creasey Daggers were announced at The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010, which took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London on October 8th.

R.J. Ellory wins the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010!

Against strong competition, R.J. Ellory’s novel A Simple Act of Violence has won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010. To celebrate Bookdagger gives you the chance to read the first chapter, listen to an extract and find out more about the author.

Bookdagger’s Real Readers

We’re looking for fans of crime and thrillers for our exciting new Real Readers programme.

Welcome to Windmill Books

Bookdagger is proud as punch to announce the addition of Windmill Books to our roster of crime publishers.

Dick Francis dies ‘of old age’, aged 89

Bestselling crime writer Dick Francis, who sold 60 million books worldwide, had died, it has been announced.

Adventures in TwitLit: A Gentle Axe Experiment

Two frozen bodies are found in Petrovsky Park – a dwarf neatly packed in a suitcase, and a burly peasant hanging from a tree – and R.N. Morris has been serialising the adventures of Police Detective Porfiry Petrovich on Twitter…