We All Fall Down

Chicago cop-turned-PI Michael Kelly is racing to save his city from a deadly new foe: a biological weapon unleashed underground.

Read an extract from Michael Harvey’s latest thriller, and watch for a chance to win copies of All Fall Down later this month!

When murder is monstrous and motiveless

Lloyd Shepherd’s The English Monster was published by Simon and Schuster on March 1 2012. In this exclusive article for Bookdagger, Lloyd ruminates on what makes a monster…

Bloomsbury launches short story competition for budding crime writers

In this Year of the Short Story, Bloomsbury Publishing, in association with the Writers and Artists Yearbook, is launching a competition challenging writers to create a crime story in a 1000 words or less.

Watch the trailer for Altar of Bones, by Philip Carter

Everything you believe is wrong.

Everything you fear is real.

Carrigan & Miller: The Series Begins

After two stand alone novels, as Stav Sherez writes below, conceiving a series, with a view to the long-term, throws up new challenges and requires a whole new approach to creating fiction.

An extract from Snapshot, by Craig Robertson

A series of shootings by a lone sniper leaves Glasgow terrorised and the media in a frenzy. Who is behind the executions of some of the most notorious criminals in the city?

The Martin Edwards Column: The Thriller Technique

What makes a great thriller? Crime novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards explores the key features of this most enduring of creations.

A quick Q&A with Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His most recent novels are A Drop of the Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder, and Getting Off, starring a very naughty young woman.

Go for the Kill Shot

The nation’s deadliest assassin has become the world’s most wanted.

Watch the trailer and read the first chapter of Vince Flynn’s American Assassin novel, Kill Shot.

Andrew Martin reads from The Somme Stations

The Jim Stringer series are detective novels set during Edwardian times that began with The Necropolis Railway in 2002. In the latest instalment Stringer leaves his home in York for the front lines of the Somme, as part of the North-Eastern Railway Battalion, aka The Railway Pals. But the men under his charge turn out to be far from pals…

An extract from Altar of Bones

The ultimate thriller of our time, Altar of Bones spans the generations, crosses continents and unearths the dark secret behind one of the world’s biggest unsolved conspiracies.

An extract from The Quiet Twin, by Dan Vyleta

Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein’s dog has been brutally killed and he wants to know why. But these are uncharitable times and one must be careful where one probes…

SJ Watson on Before I Go To Sleep

Watch the Specsavers TV Book Club discuss SJ Watson’s novel, Before I Go To Sleep with guest Simon Day – as featured on Channel4 and More4; and read a Q&A with the author.

A Night of Crime in Belgravia

On Wednesday February 8th, come and hear three of the UK’s finest crime writers discussing their work at Belgravia Books in the heart of London.

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! [closed]

Ten readers will win a copy of Joseph Finder’s new Nick Heller thriller, Buried Secrets, courtesy of Headline.