Let the Bad Blood flow…

Virgil Flowers is back, called in to investigate the murder of a small town farmer and uncovers a plot as thick as peanut butter. Read an extract here.

A Q&A with Neil Cross

Meet Neil Cross, straight talking author of several novels including Luther: The Calling, Always the Sun and Burial, as well as the bestselling memoir Heartland. He has been lead scriptwriter for the two most recent seasons of the acclaimed BBC spy drama series Spooks and continues to write widely for the screen.

Listen to the Luther: The Calling podcast

Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. He’s a murder detective. A near-genius. He’s brilliant; he’s intense; he’s instinctive. He’s obsessional. He’s dangerous.

The Lost Kings – A Code

Bruno Hare tells a tale of his time spent in Pakistan, researching his novel, Lost Kings, a rollicking tale of adventure and derring-do set on the far frontiers of Empire in the best tradition of Kipling and Rider Haggard.

A Q&A with Casey Hill

Casey Hill is the pseudonym for husband and wife writing duo Kevin and Melissa Hill. A desire to delve into the darker side of people’s lives led the two to team up in 2010 to write Taboo, the first in a series of forensic thrillers featuring CSI investigator Reilly Steel.

Explore the genesis of The Lost Kings

Bruno Hare introduces us to the wild lands that inspired his first novel, The Lost Kings, a rollicking tale of adventure and derring-do set on the far frontiers of Empire in the best tradition of Kipling and Rider Haggard.

Neil Cross discusses Luther: The Calling

Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther.

Meet Neil Cross…

Read an extract from Face of the Devil, by N. J. Cooper

‘All I did was keep her from the devil.’

Limited edition, signed proof copies of Tom Rob Smith’s Agent 6 to be won! [closed]

We have ten signed, limited edition numbered bound copies of Agent 6, Tom Rob Smith’s latest chiller, to give away, courtesy of Simon & Schuster!

Read an extract from Taboo, by Casey Hill

Read the first chapter of Casey Hill’s Taboo, the first Reilly Steel thriller – a must for fans of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.

Tom Rob Smith on The Secret Speech

Tom Rob Smith’s follow-up to wildly successsful debut novel Child 44 is republished this month.

Watch out for a competition to win amazing signed, limited edition numbered bound copies of his latest novel, Agent 6, next week on Bookdagger!

Read an extract from Agent 6, by Tom Rob Smith

The first chapter of the hotly anticipated follow-up to Tom Rob Smith’s widely celebrated, Booker-longlisted debut novel Child 44.

Watch out for a competition to win amazing signed, limited edition numbered bound copies of Agent 6 next week on Bookdagger!

Blood Line

Bestselling author Lynda La Plante discusses the plot of her latest thriller, Bloodline.

An interview with N. J. Cooper

Mike Stafford interviews Natasha Cooper, the author of, among many others, Fault Lines, Prey To All and Out of the Dark. In 2002 she was shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library, an award that ‘goes to the author whose work has given most pleasure to readers’.

Win a Michael Jecks pen from Conway Stewart

To celebrate the publication of Michael Jecks’ King’s Gold, Simon & Schuster and Conway Stewart are giving you the chance to win a beautiful Michael Jecks pen worth £475, part of their new Detection Collection series!

Michael Jecks discusses King’s Gold

Watch Michael Jecks discussing medieval history, writer’s block, his main characters, and how he became a writer.

Craig Robertson on Snapshot

Listen to Craig Robertson’s podcast, wherein he discusses his latest thriller, Snapshot featuring police photographer Tony Winter, out this month via Simon & Schuster.

The Queen of Suspense

Mary Higgins Clark takes readers back to the neighborhood in the Bronx where she grew up, her old school, and her home in Spring Lake, NJ… where there are skeletons in the backyard.

Read an extract from I’ll Walk Alone

Read an extract from Mary Higgins Clark’s latest thriller, I’ll Walk Alone.

Read an extract from Venom

Download an extract from Joan Brady’s lethal Venom… out now in paperback from Simon and Schuster.