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CrimeFest 2014

This weekend is CrimeFest in Bristol, and we’re super excited to be attending with our authors Claire Kendal, Lars Kepler, and Andrew Taylor. Last year’s festival was a lot of fun – interesting and provocative panel topics; a relaxed and friendly atmosphere; and much rendezvousing in the bar between events!… Read More

CrimeFest 2014

This weekend is CrimeFest in Bristol, and we’re super excited to be attending with our authors Claire Kendal, Lars Kepler, and Andrew Taylor. Last year’s festival was a lot of fun – interesting and provocative panel topics; a relaxed and friendly atmosphere; and much rendezvousing in the bar between events!… Read More

A COLDER WAR – MOLE HUNT

To celebrate the publication of Charles Cumming’s latest gripping spy thriller, A Colder War, we’ve set up a mole hunt of our very own. Every day this week we will be posting two videos of Charles on a different blog… Read More

In conversation with Camilla Lackberg

Buried Angels, Camilla Lackberg’s eighth book in her stunning Erica Falck and Patrick Hedstrom series was published earlier this month! We were thrilled to be able to catch up with her recently to talk all about her new novel, her writing, and her very busy schedule… Who did you grow up… Read More

Celebrate World Book Night with Agatha Christie

World Book Night 2014 is officially celebrated today, with a call for the public to inspire more people fall in love with reading. 12,500 copies of 20 specially printed World Book Night titles, totaling 250,000 books, will be given by a network of volunteer reading enthusiasts and institutions. Very excitingly,… Read More

The Chase – Paul Finch

Are you looking for a freebie from a bestselling author? Well, if you weren’t before, you are now! Number one bestseller, Paul Finch, is giving you a treat this Easter. Alas, it’s not in chocolate form, but it does come in the guise of… Read More

Easter = BOOKS

It’s Easter weekend, so we all know what that means – FOUR DAYS OF READING! Oh, and ridiculous amounts of chocolate of course… With a lovely long weekend ahead of us and some fantastic weather promised, we can’t wait to find a sunny spot in the park and sink our… Read More

Karin Slaughter’s Most Wanted – non-fiction short stories announced!

Exciting news came through from The London Book Fair last week – HarperCollins UK announced the acquisition of a series of non-fiction e-short stories, curated by international bestselling author Karin Slaughter. Telling the extraordinary stories of the FBI’s Most Wanted, the series will be called Karin Slaughter’s Most Wanted. Read More

Satire and Suggestibility: Val McDermid on Northanger Abbey

The first time I read Northanger Abbey I was an undergraduate at Oxford studying the early development of the English novel. I was seventeen – the same age as Northanger Abbey’s young heroine Catherine Morland, though naturally I considered myself far more mature and worldly than she is. And I remember two major… Read More

Natchez Burning – Greg Iles guest post

We’re thrilled to welcome Greg Iles to the Killer Reads blog today, to talk about his latest Penn Cage thriller, Natchez Burning – a stunning novel set in the American deep South in which a shocking murder from the 1960s finds new life, and victims, in the present… The biggest joke in our… Read More

Mother’s Day Gone Bad

It’s Mother’s Day! A day dedicated to celebrating, thanking, and spoiling all the wonderful mums out there. But what if your relationship with your mum is problematic? In our latest blog post, novelist Koren Zailckas talks about her awful relationship with her own mum, which fed into her chilling novel … Read More

A MOTHER’S WORST NIGHTMARE!

Mother’s Day is just a couple of days away and you know us at Killer Reads, we love to put a bit of a killer spin on events such as this! So we’ve pulled together a list of books we’ve read that come under the theme of ‘A Mother’s Worst… Read More