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- Friday at Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
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- Harrogate Hitlist: David Mark’s confession….
- Harrogate Hitlist: The Innocents by Laura Lippman
- UNDERWORLD LONDON – Crime and Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold
- Harrogate Hitlist: Mel Sherratt’s thoughts on the festival
- Harrogate Hitlist: Mari Hannah’s festival thoughts.
- The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne
- CHILLS AND THRILLS DOMINATE THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLIST 2012
- An explosive discovery: Matt Hilton
- Crime in the Court 2012 – Goldsboro Books
- Harrogate Hitlist: The Blinded Man by Arne Dahl
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- A New Crime in Translation imprint coming from Little Brown soon !!!!
- Interview: MAX ALLAN COLLINS
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- The 15-Minute Read and 36 Stories – Letting Imaginations Travel
- The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
- DEITY by Steven Dunne
- Harlan Ellison’s WEB OF THE CITY coming to HARD CASE CRIME !
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- Inspector Singh Investigates: A Curious Indian Cadavar by Shamini Flint
- My mini-Crime-themed day in London
- Tony Parsons on ‘Catching the Sun’, writing, and the promise of a crime novel !
- Lady, Go Die ! – The Lost Mike Hammer Novel by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
- Catching the Sun by Tony Parsons
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- The Gilded Edge by Danny Miller
- 2012 THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR LONGLIST REVEALED
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- Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne
- Smarten Your Writing Ideas – by SJ Wardell
- Getting ‘DEAD SCARED’ with SJ Bolton in The Cage !
- Crossbones Yard – a haunting tour of London
- No More Victims by Natasha Cooper
- Dead Scared by S.J.Bolton
- Your chance to have your Script reviewed by Nick Santora
- Unexpected Fairytale – Flashfiction
- Richard Laymon – The Horror is back !
- Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival Harrogate 2012
- World Book Night 2012
- NEVERMORE – A Graphic Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories
- Cold Grave by Craig Robertson
- The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M.Cain
- World Book Night 2012
- East Coast Twitter Crime Story.
- Signs of Life by Anna Raverat
- The Murder Wall by Mari Hannah
- The Lucky 7
- Every Vow You Break by Julia Crouch
- V.M.Zito guest blog and The Return Man reviewed.
- A Titanic release! – The Company of the Dead by David J. Kowalski
- HARROGATE HITLIST: The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williams
- HARROGATE HITLIST: The Helper by David Jackson
- Creative Thursday at Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival Harrogate 2012
- Or the Bull Kills You by Jason Webster
- Sporadic blogging and tweeting…..
- GIRL 4 by Will Carver
- Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar (translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside)
- Epitaph by Shaun Hutson
- Revenge of the Red Square (Featuring Hymie Goldman, the Defective Detective) by The Penny Brothers
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- The Goldsmith’s Secret by Elia Barcelo
- A Good and Useful Hurt by Aric Davies
- The Little One by Lynda La Plante
- Hollow Pike by James Dawson
- Pantheon by Sam Bourne
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- The Other Life by Susanne Winnacker
- Getting Off by Lawrence Block – writing as Jill Emerson
- SIEGE by Simon Kernick
- Penny Hancock drops in to talk about TIDELINE
- the fall by Claire McGowan
- where THE DEVIL can’t go – by Anya Lipska
- A Serpent Uncoiled by Simon Spurrier
- WIN A CHANCE TO BECOME A MULHOLLAND DRIVER !
- The Doll Princess by Tom Benn
- Tideline by Penny Hancock
- We Love This Book
- Stuart Neville drops in for a chat
- A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths
- Catch Your Death by Louise Voss & Mark Edwards
- The Hunting Ground – An interview with Cliff McNish and a chance to win one of five copies for your own sleepless nights.
- Stolen Souls by Stuart Neville
- Taunting the Dead by Mel Sherratt
- The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
- The Christmas Spirits by Whitley Strieber
- The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch.
- The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch
- The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
- Perfect People by Peter James
- Midwinter Sacrifice by Mons Kallentoft
- The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
- What’s going on?
- THE BUNKER by Andrea Maria Schenkel
- ALREADY GONE by John Rector
- BLACK LIGHT by Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstain & Stephen Romano
- The Drowning Pool by Syd Moore
- The Shadow on the Stairs – Ann Halam
- A Matter of Blood by Sarah Pinborough
- The Specsavers Crime & Thriller Awards in association with The Crime Writers’ Association and on ITV3
- Victim Six by Gregg Olsen
- History in the Court – Goldsboro Books
- HARD CASE CRIME ARRIVES: BANG! BANG! BANG!
- Into the Darkest Corner – by Elizabeth Haynes
- DOVE SEASON ‘A Jimmy Veeder Fiasco’ by Johnny Shaw
- Bones & Maggots – A presentation by the Natural History Museum to The Crime Writers Association.
- The most ‘striking’ book jackets in modern Crime Fiction – Designer James Edgar drops in for a chat.
- Chris Carter knows serial killers and he drops by to have a chat…..
- Shelter by Harlan Coben
- Specsavers ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Update:
- The Night Stalker by Chris Carter
- HIT GIRLS and Dreda Say Mitchell drops in for a chat.
- Trust No One by Alex Walters
- An Interview with CJ Box – at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival.
- Dennis Lehane interviewed by Mark Billingham – Harrogate Crime Writing Festival – The final event.
- The History of England – Volume 1:Foundation by Peter Ackroyd
- The Retribution and the criminally talented Val McDermid
- No Place Like Home – Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
- The Hunting Ground by Cliff McNish
- Saturday evening/night – Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
- VICE SOCIETY – Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
- LEGAL EAGLES – Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
- NEW BLOOD – Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
- Flipbackbooks – The new additions.
- The Burning Soul by John Connolly plus a chance to win a copy of BAD MEN in a flipbackbook!
- We talk CARVER with Tom Cain
- Harrogate 2011: Out of this World.
- Harrogate Hitlist: GOOD AS DEAD by Mark Billingham
- Vampire Art Now by Jasmine Becket-Griffith & Matthew David Becket
- Harrogate Crime Writing Festival: Saturday morning ; Tess Gerritsen
- ONE DEAD HEN by Charlie Williams
- The TV Book Club Summer Read
- LUTHER: The Calling by Neil Cross
- Friday P.M at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
- ‘Indigo’ has far to go – Orion’s great new imprint.
- Friday morning at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
- A full round up summary: Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
- The Full Case File: Harrogate Crime Writing Festival (Thursday).
- Harrogate Crime Writing Festival – Sad it’s all over
- Harrogate Crime Writing Festival – Friday
- Harrogate Crime Writing Festival – Thursday.
- Craig Robertson takes a break from packing his case for Harrogate to drop by for a quick chat.
- Win Win Win ! – 3 sets of Great Comic Crime novels from L.C.Tyler.
- Backtracking…Harrogate Crime Writing Festival 2004.
- Flipbackbooks – Small but perfectly formed.
- Tess Gerritsen & S.J. Watson to appear ahead of the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival.
- Reacher’s back ! – Triple news for Lee Child fans.
- The Radleys by Matt Haig
- An Act of Love by Alan Gibbons
- Tana French drops in to Books and Writers for a chat.
- Faithful Place by Tana French
- GUN by Ray Banks
- SNAPSHOT by Craig Robertson
- The Black Sea by VP Von Hoehen
- S.J. Watson Interviewed ahead of the 7th Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate.
- Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival Shortlist Announced!
- Harrogate Crime Writing Festival – Buy your books and buy your tickets…
- The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
- COLD KILL by Neil White
- The TV Book Club Summer Read
- Dead Men’s Socks by David Hewson
- MISSING by Karin Alvtegen
- Fun & Games by Duane Swierczynski
- 2004 – Lesson learned: Crime Writing Masterclass.
- Dead Wood by Chris Longmuir
- Soul Murder by Daniel Blake
- Captured by Neil Cross
- Assassin by Tom Cain
- Love books? – Love book signings and events…
- Snow Angels by James Thompson
- The Levels by Sean Cregan
- BACKTRACKING: Interviewing F. Paul Wilson (1996).
- Time’s Legacy by Barbara Erskine
- The Passage by Justin Cronin
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman
- Updating and merging….
- Pariah by David Jackson
- The Watchers by Jon Steele
- The Devil by Ken Bruen
- Sympathy for the Devil by Howard Marks
- Reading Scars – Karin Alvtegen & Hakan Nesser at The British Museum as part of World Literature Weekend in conjunction with the London Review Bookshop.
- Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival – UPDATE.
- Clouded Vision by Linwood Barclay
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- Modesty Blaise – The Girl in the Iron Mask
- Criminal London – A Sightseer’s Guide to the Capital of Crime by Kris and Nina Hollington
- Rush of Blood by Mark Billingham
- Exclusive: Prologue to THE COLD NOWHERE by Brian Freeman
- Harrogate Crime Festival programme is launched !
- Creative Thursday at Harrogate !
- Deadly Deceit by Mari Hannah
- Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
- World Book Night 2013 is almost here!
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- The Magpies by Mark Edwards
- Below the Thunder by Robin Duval
- A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
- Max Allan Collins drops by to discuss his writing and ‘Seduction of the Innocent’.
- Exciting new signing for Harvill Secker Crime Fiction.
- As if you needed any more reasons to go to Harrogate….
- CRIME SPREE FOR HARROGATE ANNOUNCED
- The Damage by Howard Linskey
- Stalkers by Paul Finch
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