Best Crime Books

Best Novel Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster) Tower by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman (Busted Flush Press) Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie (Wm. Morrow) Nemesis by Jo Nesbo, translated by Don Bartlett (HarperCollins) The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Minotaur) The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan (Minotaur) Best First [...]

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AKA 50 Mystery Writers to Read Before You Die In February 2008, London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper published their list of “50 Crime Writers To Read Before You Die”. There were actually 51 in the list as they concluded the list with an interview with Robert B Parker (1932-2010), who they describe as “an unrivalled pulp [...]

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Best Novel Nominees • The Missing by Tim Gautreaux (Random House – Alfred A. Knopf) • The Odds by Kathleen George (Minotaur Books) • The Last Child by John Hart (Minotaur Books) • Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (Random House – Ballantine Books) • Nemesis by Jo Nesbo, translated [...]

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Bestselling author Val McDermid has been named as the recipient of this year’s prestigious CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing. The announcement has been made by the Crime Writers’ Association in recognition of Val’s work over more than 20 years. Margaret Murphy, chair of the CWA, [...]

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The Crime Writers’ Association is pleased to announce that: William Brodrick wins the CWA Gold Dagger for A Whispered Name John Hart wins the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for The Last Child Johan Theorin wins the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for Echoes from The Dead Philip Kerr wins the Ellis Peters Historical [...]

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The Crime Writers’ Association is delighted to announce the shortlists for a number of this year’s Daggers – the prestigious awards that celebrate the very best in crime and thriller writing in 2009. The CWA Dagger Awards are the longest established literary awards in the UK and are internationally recognised as a mark of excellence [...]

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Yet another TV serial killer saga from La Plante, who must have slaughtered more prostitutes in her career than  you or I have had warm goats cheese tarts. ‘Above Suspicion’ features the doziest female copper ever seen on the small screen, in the tightest skirt and tightest blouse ever seen in Scotland Yard, all corseted [...]

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