P.D. James in conversation

P. D. James introduces and discusses Death Comes to Pemberley…

Cuckoo

Read an extract from Julia Crouch’s dark, juicy, deliciously unsettling, read-it-in-one-sitting psychological drama.

Galaxy National Book Awards 2011: Crime and Thriller Novel of the Year

Bookdagger is delighted to bring you extracts from the shortlists and winners of the Galaxy National Book Awards 2011. The winners will now compete for the Galaxy Book of the Year. The public can vote for their favourite and the winner will be announced on 21 December.

Meet The Secret Soldier

Read an extract from this intelligent, commercial CIA spy thriller fiction from NYT #1 paperback and NYT Top Ten hardback bestseller Alex Berenson…

Lisa Gardner on Catch Me

Bestselling crime author Lisa Gardner recently joined Headline Books, who are due to issue the paperback of Love You More and her new hardback title Catch Me in early 2012. Watch Lisa discussing the forthcoming novel in the second of three videos here on Boodkagger…

The November Competition [closed]

Three readers will win copies of Death Comes to Pemberley, The Magician’s Wife, The Statement, Covenant, and Cuckoo in our November competition.

Hope you’ve read those extracts!

An extract from The Statement, by Brian Moore

Hot on the heels of last week’s extract of The Magician’s Wife, we present an insight into The Statement.

Watch out for a competition to win copies of Brian Moore’s novels in our November competition this Friday!

An extract from Death Comes To Pemberley, by P.D. James

In a pitch-perfect recreation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P. D. James elegantly fuses her lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen with her talent for writing detective fiction….

An extract from The Magician’s Wife

Power, politics, religion and love, the court of Napoleon III and the deserts of Algeria combine in this mesmerising novel from master storyteller Brian Moore.

Watch out for a competition to win copies of Brian Moore’s novels later this month!

Read an extract from Covenant, by Dean Crawford

Only one man will risk everything to prevent a catastrophe that could tear the world apart…

Read carefully as we’ll have three copies of Covenant up for grabs in the Bookdagger november competition later this month!

An extract from Lisa Gardner’s Love You More

Bestselling crime author Lisa Gardner recently joined Headline Books, who are due to issue the paperback of Love You More in early 2012. Read the prologue here on Bookdagger…

The Martin Edwards Column: Locked Rooms

Crime novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards on the classic locked room set-up…

Republishing Kenneth Benton

Kenneth Benton was chair of the Crime Writers’ Association in 1974-5, succeeding Dick Francis, and an author of several spy and crime novels featuring hero Peter Craig. Dan Benton tells Bookdagger about his grandfather’s legacy, and republishing the titles in this new digital age.