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Crime Fighting Duos with Faye Kellerman’s Murder 101

LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker and his wife and crime-solving partner Rina Lazarus are back in Faye Kellerman’s newest thriller, Murder 101! The couple moved from the chaos of their earlier life by moving to a quiet town in upstate New York, but being semi-retired lacks the excitement of crime solving… Read More

Dead Man Walking

Today’s the day that fans across the country have been waiting for. The new DS Mark Heckenburg novel from Paul Finch publishes today, and Dead Man Walking has already been getting early rave reviews. “Superb!” “Brilliantly evil villains.” “Shot my nerves to hell!” Need we say more? So… Read More

Behind the Scenes with Simon Toyne

So today, suave and sophisticated author of the pacy series Sanctus came in to talk about his brand new series, Solomon Creed. Here are some some sneaky shots from the day!      … Read More

November’s Killer Reads Book Club title is…

We’re very excited that the next book in the Killer Reads book club is the very first Agatha Christie Poirot novel: The Mysterious Affair at Styles. This is an absolute classic, and we can’t wait for everyone to get stuck in. Want to win a copy?… Read More

John Harding guest post: Mystery lurks in dark corners…

Today, in celebration of Halloween coming up this Friday, we have John Harding, author of Florence and Giles and The Girl Who Couldn’t Read, on the blog talking about gothic horror and what inspired him to write two very sinister stories… My introduction to Gothic fiction… Read More

Intruders episode one preview

Here at Killer Reads we were hugely excited to hear that BBC America was going to turn one of our favourite books, THE INTRUDERS, into an 8-part TV show. We waited on tenterhooks to hear what the plans for UK transmission would be. Whispers reached our ears… Read More

Production on THE INTRUDERS TV series

Soon THE INTRUDERS will be hitting our screens, with an incredible cast including John Simm and Mira Sorvino, with  writer and executive producer Glen Morgan (The X-Files) at the helm. All this month, we’ve been looking at Michael Marshall’s terrifying book, which we’ll be discussing next week in… Read More

Debbie Johnson’s Top Ten PIs

My new book, Fear No Evil, features a female private investigator plying her trade in Liverpool. She’s called Jayne McCartney, and while she’s not a martial arts expert or tooled up with Glocks, she is pretty tough. Mainly, though, her strength comes from character – from tenacity, determination,… Read More

Behind the scenes with Stuart MacBride at HC Towers

Yesterday, Stuart MacBride, author extraordinaire of the Logan McRae stories, popped into HarperCollins HQ to shoot some very special videos for all you fans, including some exclusive sneak peaks! He read a little of his new book ‘The Missing and the Dead’ and let me tell you, we were terrified!… Read More

Michael Marshall talks about setting

This month, we’re talking about Michael Marshall’s THE INTRUDERS in our brand new Goodreads book club. Here’s Michael to talk a little bit about the setting, and why he knew he wanted to set it in Seattle… Once I had the idea for THE INTRUDERS, I… Read More

Behind the Title of Harm’s Reach by Alex Barclay

Alex Barclay’s latest crime novel is called Harm’s Reach. She explains why… At the dark heart of every crime novel is a secret – a buried thing that throws together people who otherwise may never have met: the initiator of the secret, the keeper of it, the victim of it,… Read More
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