CWA Dagger Awards 2011

The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2011 were revealed earlier this month.

Shortlists announced for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2011

Have you read any of the candidate titles? If so, don’t miss your chance to vote…

Bromley Literary Festival’s day of crime!

Looking some criminally good entertainment on Saturday 18th June? Come along to Crime Writers’ Question Time & Signing: 3-4.30pm, Bromley Library Hall, sponsored by Bookdagger.

Win the chance to be a character in a new Chris Carter novel!

Chris Carter knows serial killers.

Detective Robert Hunter catches them. And YOU could be the next victim of one…

Bookdagger’s Real Readers NEED YOU!

We’re looking for fans of crime and thrillers for our exciting Real Readers programme.

The latest 4 titles for our members have been confirmed… titles by R.J. Ellory, Peter Straub, Andrew Pepper and Alan Bradley.

CWA Daggers Award Winners

The winners of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold, Ian Fleming Steel, and John Creasey Daggers were announced at The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010, which took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London on October 8th.

R.J. Ellory wins the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010!

Against strong competition, R.J. Ellory’s novel A Simple Act of Violence has won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010. To celebrate Bookdagger gives you the chance to read the first chapter, listen to an extract and find out more about the author.

Bookdagger’s Real Readers

We’re looking for fans of crime and thrillers for our exciting new Real Readers programme.

Welcome to Windmill Books

Bookdagger is proud as punch to announce the addition of Windmill Books to our roster of crime publishers.

Dick Francis dies ‘of old age’, aged 89

Bestselling crime writer Dick Francis, who sold 60 million books worldwide, had died, it has been announced.

Adventures in TwitLit: A Gentle Axe Experiment

Two frozen bodies are found in Petrovsky Park – a dwarf neatly packed in a suitcase, and a burly peasant hanging from a tree – and R.N. Morris has been serialising the adventures of Police Detective Porfiry Petrovich on Twitter…