Elmore Leonard on Voices of the Dead

Read the introduction to Peter Leonard’s Voices of the Dead, writtten by his father, Elmore Leonard…

ATTENTION PLEASE! Watch this, and no apologies for the profanities!

Simon Spurrier’s promotional video for A Serpent Uncoiled… and a blog.

What secrets wash up on the tide?

Listen to the podcast for Penny Hancock’s debut novel, Tideline…

It’s Carnage!

Three sets of killings in three weeks, all the same with the perpetrators committing suicide. It isn’t just a coincidence…

Read an extract from Maxime Chattam’s thriller, out next month through Gallic Books.

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!

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…

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 …

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.

Already Gone

Jake Reese is an ordinary guy with an ordinary job, trying to block out the memory of his violent past by planning for the future with his new wife, Diane. But the past has a habit of refusing to stay buried…

An extract from John Rector’s latest thriller.

An interview with Oliver Stark

Oliver Stark’s debut novel was American Devil, a crime thriller series featuring Tom Harper and Denise Levene; and these characters have made a return in second book 88 Killer. He is now writing the third book in the series.

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…

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…