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The hunt is on. Once again HarperCollins has teamed up with Alibi and Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate to unearth some of the country’s hottest new crime-writing talent, and who better to provide you with inspiration than the queen of the scandicrime scene, Camilla Lackberg? So put your… Read More

Greetings! We've got something special up our sleeve this week, in the handsome shape of this video featuring author of THE TRINITY SIX Charles Cumming meeting with star of THE WIRE Dominic West, a.k.a. Jimmy McNulty.   Read More

Back in December, authonomy.com went live for the first of a series of genre specific writing workshops. I joined bestselling authors Meg Gardiner and Claire Seeber, literary agent Camilla Wray from Darley Anderson, my colleagues David Brawn and Kate Bradley, and an enthusiastic bunch of writers for the day at HC Towers. My workshops tackled ‘suspense.' I asked my groups to think about the films, TV shows and books that have successfully created the kind of nail biting suspense they'd like to emulate in their writing and what techniques they used. We came up with the list below - can you think of anything to add to it? Read More

The fantastic Shatter the Bones by Stuart MacBride is January”s Book of the Month. Bloody. Brilliant. MacBride is back with his terrifyingly, brilliant #1 bestseller Shatter the Bones. Read an extract of Shatter the Bones ‘You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and… Read More

Special treat for you all this week – an awesome video made for one of the UK’s very best crime writers, Stuart MacBride. He’s been at No. 1 in the Sunday Times hardback bestseller chart for two weeks running, so this is as good a time as any to let… Read More

When Alice Saunders at LAW sent us the script for Sanctus, a debut thriller by Simon Toyne, we knew that we had something special in our hands. Set largely in the fictional city of Ruin, southern Turkey, Sanctus is an apocalyptic conspiracy thriller like no other. Read More

20th January 2011 sees the publication of Scott Mariani’s latest action-packed thriller, The Lost Relic. Whilst visiting an art gallery in Italy, former SAS officer Ben Hope witnesses a robbery that turns into a vicious bloodbath. Finding himself wrongly accused of murder and forced to go on the run, Ben… Read More

Competition Terms and Conditions 1. This competition is promoted by HarperCollins Publishers (“HarperCollins”), 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8JB. 2. This promotion is open to all UK residents except employees of HarperCollins and Studio Canal (or their parent, subsidiaries or any affiliated companies) and their immediate families, who are… Read More

Introducing James Thompson: a chilling new voice in crime writing... As the snow settles and the dark nights draw in, it seems the right time to launch a thrilling new crime writer on the unsuspecting British public. James Thompson's debut novel, Snow Angels, offers all the haunting atmospherics you'd expect from the freezing wastelands of Finland. So if Scandinavian noir writing is your thing, then Snow Angels won't fail to disappoint, and its beginning, set just before Christmas - the bleakest time of year in Lapland - will continue to haunt you long after you've read it... * Read More

We're all looking forward to our Christmas break, and what better way to spend it than with a good book? To help you out, we've put together our thoughts on our favourite books from 2010 - and a few to watch out for in 2011! Happy reading! Read More

The very aptly titles Snow Angels by James Thompson is December’s Book of the Month. The first thriller in a new series featuring Inspector Kari Vaara: the haunted, hardened detective who must delve into Finland’s dark and violent underbelly. Read an extract of Snow… Read More

A couple of lucky members from the Killer Reads team spent a great day recently with Charles Cumming and Dominic West, star (and heartthrob) from The Wire. Dom had been asked to help with our promotion of the fantastic new thriller The Trinity Six (publishing in Feb 2011). We couldn’t believe our luck when unforeseen pneumatic drill action forced us from our original location into Dom’s own home. Team KR arrived sometime after the morning’s pneumatic events and armed with 10 pain au chocolat patiently sat and watched Dominic read from Charles Cumming’s new novel. He definitely sounded the part and gave us great hope that one day he may be persuaded to play Gaddis if a blockbuster movie is ever made….fingers crossed, fingers crossed, fingers crossed… Read More