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CWA Dagger Awards 2011
Posted On: October 26, 2011Posted In: News
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2011 were revealed earlier this month.
Read More...Shortlists announced for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2011
Posted On: August 19, 2011Posted In: News
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
Have you read any of the candidate titles? If so, don’t miss your chance to vote…
Read More...Bromley Literary Festival’s day of crime!
Posted On: June 16, 2011Posted In: Articles, News
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
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.
Read More...Win the chance to be a character in a new Chris Carter novel!
Posted On: March 24, 2011Posted In: Competitions, News
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Chris Carter knows serial killers.
Detective Robert Hunter catches them. And YOU could be the next victim of one…
Read More...Bookdagger’s Real Readers NEED YOU!
Posted On: October 20, 2010Posted In: News
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
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.
Read More...CWA Daggers Award Winners
Posted On: October 12, 2010Posted In: News
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
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.
Read More...R.J. Ellory wins the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010!
Posted On: July 26, 2010Posted In: News
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
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.
Read More...Bookdagger’s Real Readers
Posted On: June 24, 2010Posted In: News
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
We’re looking for fans of crime and thrillers for our exciting new Real Readers programme.
Read More...Welcome to Windmill Books
Posted On: March 5, 2010Posted In: News
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
Bookdagger is proud as punch to announce the addition of Windmill Books to our roster of crime publishers.
Read More...Dick Francis dies ‘of old age’, aged 89
Posted On: February 14, 2010Posted In: News
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
Bestselling crime writer Dick Francis, who sold 60 million books worldwide, had died, it has been announced.
Read More...Adventures in TwitLit: A Gentle Axe Experiment
Posted On: October 20, 2009Posted In: News
Publisher: Faber
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…
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