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LATEST NEWSDaggers Line-up Revealed At Harrogate Specsavers, Cactus TV and ITV3, in partnership with the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), have announced three key book shortlists for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards on ITV3, celebrating the very best of British and International crime thriller fiction in the UK and beyond. The content of ITV3's brand new Crime Thriller Season of accompanying documentaries is also announced today at the Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire Two No Exit Press Titles Shortlisted For Cwa Dagger Awards Two No Exit titles have been shortlisted for CWA Dagger Awards in Harrogate at a packed event in The Crown Hotel. They are Conman/Richard Asplin (Gold Dagger) and Cut Short/Leigh Russell (John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger) LATEST REVIEWSI'm Not Scared & The Crossroads Niccolò Ammaniti Canongate has issued a new paperback edition of Niccolò Ammaniti's I'm Not Scared (originally published in an English translation by Jonathan Hunt in 2003), alongside his later novel The Crossroads. The two books can be read as companion pieces on the complex relationship between father and son, a theme that clearly fascinates Ammaniti – before making his name as a thriller writer, he collaborated with his father (a professor in psycopathology) on an essay on the problems of adolescence entitled 'In the name of the son'... Bad Intentions Karin Fossum, Trans Charlotte Barslund At a recent crime-fiction convention in Bristol, the authors who were after-dinner speakers were dispensing the usual darkly humorous pleasantries to a chuckling audience; how they made a living from murder; how their spouses came up with ever-more ingenious ways of dispatching victims.But then the guest of honour, Karin Fossum, took the stage, and the bonhomie evaporated in a cool blast of Norwegian air... Barry Forshaw in The Independent |
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LATEST FEATURES
Maps Of Hell: Paul Johnston The Cartography of the Underworld My latest book, Maps of Hell, is an example of that extremely rare thing - a stand-alone novel within a series. Although the protagonist, crime writer and sleuth Matt Wells, appeared in The Death List and The Soul Collector, I wanted to change as much as I could in order to increase the tension. So Matt finds himself naked and imprisoned at the start – but worse, he has no idea who or where he is, never mind how he got there.
James McCreet, Author Of The Vice Society, On The Irresistible Lure Of Murder What is it about the crime genre that has so repulsed and captivated audiences for almost two hundred years? Perhaps the vicarious thrill, the taboo of criminal empathy, the car-crash urge to look upon what is certain to shock and sicken. Whatever it is, this too-human fascination with murder is one of the central preoccupations of my own books set in Victorian London. LATEST INTERVIEWS
Under The Influence: L C Tyler You know how it is. The bright lights are shining in your eyes. The interrogation has been relentless for almost an hour. You've told them all you know – and more. But still it goes on. You take a sip of tepid water and hope that they'll give you a break – but, no ... "I think," says the chairman, "that we've got time for just one more question from the audience. Yes, you sir, at the back – the gentleman with the crazed expression and straw in his hair." "Could the panel tell us," says the voice from out of the gloom, "which other writers have influenced them and how?"
Flesh Tailor: Kate Ellis have forgotten where exactly I heard the term 'Flesh Tailor', which is, apparently, an archaic title for a surgeon. But once those two words were planted in my head, they sparked off a series of ideas which brewed in my mind for a couple of years and led eventually to the creation of my latest novel, The Flesh Tailor, a story of wartime evacuees, a house which once belonged to an Elizabethan anatomist and the execution style murder of a country doctor... |
