The Grantchester Mysteries trailer

The Grantchester Mysteries is a projected series of six novels by James Runcie. Beginning in 1953, and ending in 1978, the series features the clergyman-detective, Canon Sidney Chambers. It’s Father Brown with attitude, Agatha Christie with Cathedrals, and Barbara Pym with sex.

Listen to the Titanic Secret podcast

What if it wasn’t an iceberg that sunk the Titanic?

Sam Eastland on his Stalin-era thriller Siberian Red

Sam Eastland, pen-name for author Paul Watkins, discusses the third in his Stalin-era Soviet thriller series, Siberian Red.

Welcome to the Island of Bones

Cumbria, 1783. A broken heritage; a secret history… The tomb of the first Earl of Greta should have lain undisturbed on its island of bones for three hundred years. When idle curiosity opens the stone lid, however, inside is one body too many. Read an extract from Island of Bones, by Imogen Robertson.

This is the Circle of Shadows

A locked room. A dark threat. A place of poisonous lies.

Read an extract from Imogen Robertson’s Circle of Shadows.

Sam Eastland discusses his fictional hero Pekkala

Sam Eastland, pen-name of the author Paul Watkins, discusses Pekkala, the hero of his Stalin-era Soviet thriller series, first introduced in Eye of the Red Tsar.

The Baker’s Blood

The sixth Nicholas Le Floch investigation is here. Read an extract from The Baker’s Blood, by Jean-Francois Parot.

Unleash The English Monster

Based on the real-life story of the gruesome Ratcliffe Highway murders, The English Monster takes us on a voyage across centuries, through the Age of Discovery, and throws us up, part of the human jetsam, onto the streets of Regency Wapping, policed only by Officer Horton. Read an extract.

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…

An extract from The Quiet Twin, by Dan Vyleta

Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein’s dog has been brutally killed and he wants to know why. But these are uncharitable times and one must be careful where one probes…

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…

Retracing the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Part One

Between now and the end of December, retrace the locations of the notorious 1811 Ratcliffe Highway Murders, described in P. D. James & T. A. Critchley’s The Maul and the Pear Tree, with The Gentle Author from the Spitalfields Life blog. And, read on for details of the Ratcliffe Highway Murder Walk…

P. D. James shares her appreciation for Jane Austen

In this extended 30-minute interview the author discusses the challenge of taking, Pride and Prejudice, a beloved work of fiction, in a wholly unexpected direction.

An extract from The Statement, by Brian Moore

Hot on the heels of last week’s extract of The Magician’s Wife, we present an insight into The Statement.

Watch out for a competition to win copies of Brian Moore’s novels in our November competition this Friday!

An extract from Death Comes To Pemberley, by P.D. James

In a pitch-perfect recreation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P. D. James elegantly fuses her lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen with her talent for writing detective fiction….

An extract from The Magician’s Wife

Power, politics, religion and love, the court of Napoleon III and the deserts of Algeria combine in this mesmerising novel from master storyteller Brian Moore.

Watch out for a competition to win copies of Brian Moore’s novels later this month!

Crime Roundup

In case you missed it, check out a round up of some of this month’s featured books!

Enter to win an advance copy of Eat Him If You Like [closed]

Enter to be one of three winners to take home an advance copy of Jean Teule’s upcoming book, Eat Him If You Like.

Eat Him If You Like

Read an extract from Eat Him If You Like, a cannibalistic story based on real events in nineteenth-century France. Due to come out from Gallic 1 November.

Win sets of Claude Izner’s Victor Legris mysteries! [closed]

Three Bookdagger readers will win complete sets of six Claude Izner’s Victor Legris 19th Century Parisian thrillers, courtesy of Gallic Books.