The Crime Files

Lewis Csizmazia, Senior Designer at Hodder & Stoughton, takes us behind the scenes of the cover design process for Amy Engel’s new nail-biting thriller, The Familiar Dark.   I’m a senior book cover designer predominately […]

She hates herself.   All the way from work, back to her compact top-floor flat, she feels the loathing in her gut, even as she feels the excitement too. It’s always this way, the tug […]

I’m lucky enough to be spending January 2020 in Japan, indulging my new-found love of all things Japanese—the food and culture, the landscape and the people. From a crime writer perspective, the recent television hit Giri/Haji ticked […]

There is blood everywhere. He pushes the door open and there is blood everywhere. The door is ajar, keys in the lock, so he pushes it open, a greeting forming on his lips, and there […]

Writer, broadcaster and journalist Barry Forshaw asks who really was the best writer in the British genre’s Golden Age…   As many crime fiction aficionados attest, Dorothy L. Sayers was a far better writer than […]

Lee Child has called Heather Chavez’s NO BAD DEED ‘a sensational debut’! Read a Halloween extract from this gripping debut now.   With its mature trees, older homes, and sidewalks sloping toward the sky, Lomita […]

Read an extract from IN HER EYES, the gripping thriller about the secrets in a seemingly perfect family, from the author of FRIENDS LIKE THESE.   IN HER EYES is a gripping thriller about the […]

Two debut authors, Samantha M. Bailey, author of WOMAN ON THE EDGE, and Heather Chavez, author of NO BAD DEED, interview each other for The Questioning.                   […]

SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB GIVEAWAY: DEON MEYER   Win the first five books in Deon Meyer’s Benny Griessel series!   Deon Meyer dominates the world of crime fiction as the compelling voice of contemporary South […]

PROLOGUE Cambodia: April 1975 There is a seventeenth-century proverb which says, ‘When war begins hell opens.’ In this once lovely country in the heart of Indochina, hell opened when the war ended. This, then, was […]

Extracts from Karen Edwards’s A KILLER’S CONFESSION: The Untold Story Behind ITV’s ‘A Confession’. As BT TV says ‘A Confession on ITV has had viewers gripped to their TV screens on Monday nights with its […]

The amount of crime fiction available to readers is enormous and what makes it even better the sheer number of incredible translated crime fiction. Translated crime books give a fascinating insight into the similarities and […]