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#KillerFest15 line-up

The KillerFest15 Crime Fiction line-up   Not registered to receive the full virtual programme yet? You still can here (for free)  Or why not check out the live events in Waterstones bookshops around the country AGATHA CHRISTIE – Exclusive cover reveal on Kill Reads… Read More

#KillerFest15 Programme

#KILLERFEST15 VIRTUAL PROGRAMME Not registered yet? You still can here (for free)  Friday 13th March: Twitter 2.00pm: ERIN KELLY – Live chat with author of the Broadchurch books on KillerReads Twitter feed 2.30pm: #askkillerreads – Ask the Killer Reads team anything. On… Read More

Pole dancer… #killerfest15

Every character starts out with a few short sharp details. In the opening sequence of a Bond movie in that one small circle, you get: man suit gun bang. When I first created my heroine I got: bipolar FBI agent bang. Because with that one adjective “bipolar”, everything kicked off. Read More

Doing Nothing is To Writing As Writing is To…? #killerfest15

I once rented a house in the country for a few months in which to write. Every day, I started at six a.m. at the kitchen table, kept the curtains drawn, stayed in my pyjamas until lunchtime, stopped to shower, then back to write until at least eight most nights. Read More

Q&A with author Alex Barclay #killerfest15

Photograph by Muireann Brady Your (author) name: Alex Barclay Tell us about yourself: I live in Cork, I write crime novels, I love coffee. Tell us about your latest book: It’s called Killing Ways and it’s the fifth featuring Ren Bryce. Brief lowdown: a serial rapist and murderer is… Read More

Q&A with author Ben McPherson @TheBenMcPherson #killerfest15

Your name: Ben McPherson Tell us about yourself: I’m 48 and Scottish by birth, but increasingly Norwegian in outlook. I live in Oslo with my wife and our two sons, and Scandinavia is quietly seeping into my soul. Tell us about your latest book: A Line of Blood… Read More

I needed a corpse… #killerfest15

I never set out be be a crime novelist. Even after I’d written two full drafts of my first novel, A Line of Blood, I didn’t realise that I was. I wanted to tell the story of a London couple who had fallen into parenthood as they had into marriage:… Read More

Q&A with S. Williams, author of TUESDAY FALLING

What drew you to the world of crime? Watching James Bond as a child.  Then Get Carter. Then reading Chandler. James Lee Burke. Rupert Thomson. Working in Soho and swimming in the fabulous gutteratti that butters the place. What author (besides yourself) do you think that everyone should… Read More

Blog profile: Dark Readers @DarkRReviews #KillerFest15

Your name: Stephen Your blog’s name: Dark Readers Blog’s URL: www.dark-readers.com Which types of books do you review? Everything, YA, Fantasy, Crime, Horror What do you like about crime fiction? That it is a timeless genre, fitting so well into so many aspects of fiction, not just in its… Read More

Blog profile: Reading Room with a View @readingroom79 #KillerFest15

Your name: Lisa Hall Your blog’s name: Reading Room with a View Blog’s URL: http://reading-room-with-a-view.blogspot.co.uk Which types of books do you review? I review most genres, but crime and psychological thrillers are my favourite. What do you like about crime fiction? I just love the twists and turns that come with reading crime… Read More

Weekend Reads: Top New Thrillers Out Today!

Another exciting Thursday for us here at KillerReads and the Harper Fiction Marketing team! We have some stellar titles releasing today, and you might just have stumbled upon your new read for the weekend. In no particular order (our books are our children–we love them equally!), here’s the run down… Read More

Killer Crime Festival 2015

WATERSTONES AND HARPERCOLLINS JOIN FORCES FOR A LITERARY FESTIVAL FIRST We’ve been keeping this a secret for a while but now we can finally share the news with you! KillerReads (that’s us!) and Waterstones are hosting the first Killer Crime Festival–the only combined virtual and traditional literary… Read More