The Lewis Man

Watch the trailer for the The Lewis Man – the follow-up to The Blackhouse, which was an international bestseller in both hardback and paperback. It is the second novel in the Lewis trilogy.

Win copies of Buried Secrets, by Joseph Finder!

Ten readers will win a copy of Joseph Finder’s new Nick Heller thriller, Buried Secrets, courtesy of Headline.

Watch the Buried Secrets Trailer

Watch the trailer and read the extract for the second book in international bestseller Joseph Finder’s new series, featuring corporate investigator Nick Heller, Buried Secrets.

On Wednesday we’ll be giving away 10 copies of Buried Secrets, so watch, listen and read carefully!

Jack Reacher on Nick Heller, by Lee Child

To celebrate today’s publication of the second book in international bestseller Joseph Finder’s new series, featuring corporate investigator Nick Heller, Buried Secrets, we present an exclusive short story by Lee Child. Later this month we’ll be giving away 10 copies of Buried Secrets, so read carefully!

Retracing the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Part Two

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…

Pascal Garnier – in his own words

Pascal Garnier, who died in March 2010, was a talented novelist, short story writer, children’s author and painter. Gallic Books will publish three novels by him in 2012: The Panda Theory, How’s the Pain? and The A26. In an article for his French publisher, Zulma, Garnier described what led him to become a writer…

The December Competition [closed]

Happy Christmas to all our readers! We’ve purposefully left the competition late in the month so that three Bookdagger readers will receive a package of three crime titles from Faber, Gallic Books and Simon and Schuster in the post early in the New Year…

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…

Read The Secret Diaries of Laura Palmer

For fans of Twin Peaks, a glimpse into the bizarre world of Laura Palmer, written by an author who had exclusive access to the subject – Jennifer Lynch.

The Martin Edwards Column: Collaborative mysteries

Crime novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards asks how do more two people write a book together? Or more than two?

An extract from The Maul and the Pear Tree, by P.D. James and T. A. Critchley

December 1811, a young linen draper and his family were cruelly murdered at night in their home at 29 Ratcliffe Highway in Wapping. Twelve days later, a publican and members of his household were slaughtered in similar fashion, just half a mile away …

Win audio books of SJ Watson’s Before I Go To Sleep [closed]

In association with AudioGO (home of BBC audio books), we have 5 CD sets of the Galaxy Books Awards shortlisted Before I Go To Sleep read by Susannah Harker, for 5 Bookdagger readers.

French noir

With European police dramas Spiral and The Killing the cult TV successes of 2011, and translated crime fiction enjoying a post-Larsson boom, noir may just be the new black.

Gallic Books’ in-house translator Emily Boyce on French noir fiction.