Zoran Drvenkar

Top Crime & Thriller Out This Week.

First and foremost–hope you all are having a fantastic Valentine’s Day, whether you are spending it with loved ones or curled up with a book (or both!). Tell Tale – Mark Sennen If you’re looking for new read to pick up this weekend, we’ve had some great titles release this week. Read More

Q&A with Zoran Drvenkar

With the recent paperback release of Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar, a book that each member of the Killer Reads team has been hooked on at some point over the last year, his editor decided it was about time to spend a few extra minutes at the end of a meeting with Zoran to ask him the questions that the KR team have been wanting to know. Below is the result. So, if you're a fan of Zoran, you've recently read Sorry or you just want to know how crime thriller authors manage to come up with such spine-tingling plots then delve into the following Q&A.     1. What prompted you to write your first novel? Read More

The books that have recently given us nightmares…

As we are leading up to Halloween I decided it was the prime opportunity to ask the Killer Reads team what books they have each recently read that gave them nightmares. Being a group that love thrillers, crime and anything that means you spend the next week leaving the lights on just so you can sleep, they all proceeded to pull at least one book out of their bag that had given them the heebie jeebies. So we thought we would share them with you so that you, like us, can start preparing your scare-o-meters for the ever looming fright night...   Blacklands by Belinda Bauer Chosen by Emad Akhtar   Blacklands is a story that unsettled me for a long time – it’s an unusually absorbing and affecting story. This is partly because Blacklands, as Belinda Bauer says in her afterword, ‘was never intended to be a crime novel’. It began as a way of exploring ‘the impact of crimes such as Avery’s, how they affect people for years, lifetimes – maybe even generations’. Read More

Christmas Advent Calendar: Prize No. 2

3 sets of a hardback of Sorry plus an exclusive Sorry mug, ahead of publication in March! To enter, simply answer this question: Which member of the Killer Reads team grew an astonishing moustache for Movember? Check our twitter photos for a clue! Email you answer to killerreadscomp@harpercollins.co.uk along… Read More