June is National Crime Reading Month
Libraries, booksellers, publishers and festivals are taking part in National Crime Reading Month this month, while crime writers are contributing videos and blogs to the dedicated site with more posted almost every day of June.
National Crime Reading Month is a unique festival, held throughout the UK, which promotes the crime genre. Hosted by the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA), it will take place throughout the month of June, 2021. Read more
Denise Beddows writes award-winning crime/espionage fiction and true crime, her latest book ‘The Forgotten Forty-Four: Victims & Survivors of America’s First Serial Sex Killer’ was shortlisted and awarded a ‘highly commended at the 2024 True Crime Awards.
Joanna Wallace’s book ‘You’d Look Better as a Ghost’ won the 2023 Crime Fiction Lovers’ Best Debut Crime Novel Award and has been optioned for TV, and Joana was shortlisted for the Best Crime Author of the Year Award. Her new book ‘The Dead Friend Project’ is available soon.
Louise Burfitt-Dons drew on her experience of growing up in Kuwait for the background to her best-selling espionage thriller ‘Our Man in Kuwait’. She is author also of ‘The Missing Activist’, ‘The Killing of the Cherrywood MP’ and ‘The Secret War’.
Dan Malakin, author of ‘The Regret’ and ‘The Box’, and twice shortlisted for The Bridport Prize,
introduces his latest book ‘The Wreckage of Us’, described as ‘suspenseful, thrilling and perfectly crafted’ and ‘a masterful study of the art of manipulation’.
JA Marley, John, who runs his own successful TV production company, pens the best-selling Danny Felix series of crime thrillers including ‘London Interrupted’ and ‘The Unholy Hours’.
