The Crime Warp

  C RIME F EST Announce 2021 Award Nominees C RIME F EST , one of Europe’s leading crime writing conventions, has announced the shortlists for its annual awards. The awards feature the Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award, the winner of which receives a £1,000 prize. A further £1,000 prize fund is also awarded to the Audible Sounds of Crime Award, sponsored by Audible. Up for the hotly-contended Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award is Richard Osman, who ruled the bestseller lists with his smash-hit, The Thursday Murder Club . The shortlist also features Trevor Wood, who won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger in 2020, for The Man on the Street . Sheila Michell's biography of her husband - and namesake of the H.R.F. Keating Award – is in contention for the best biographical or critical book in the genre. Michell’s HRF Keating: A Life of Crime has been hailed as the definitive portrait of the artist and man. The H.R.F Keating Award also features Martin Edwards, editor of...

Capital Crime Festival 26-28 th  September 2019 line up so far:   https://www.capitalcrime.org/guests/ Abir Mukherjee| Ian Rankin| Kate Atkinson | Martina Cole | Ann Cleeves| Mark Billingham | |Tom Bradby | John Connolly| David Baldacci | Frank Gardner | Robert Glenister | Robert Harris | Charles Cumming  Peter James | Lynda La Plante | Simon Mayo | Steph McGovern | Kate Mosse | Denise Mina| Leye Adenle| Dreda Say Mitchell | |Catherine Steadman | Stella Rimington | Don Winslow | And many, many more to come… Capital Crime  today announces further names for its inaugural festival taking place this September at the Connaught Rooms in London. Mark Billingham, Martina Cole, Ian Rankin, Ann Cleeves, Don Winslow, Robert Glenister, Leye Adenle, Denise Mina, Catherine Steadman and Abir Mukherjee are among the guests announced today. The first international crime and thriller festival in London,  Capital Crime  offers fan...