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Meet the New Team Q&A

We’ve had a few changes at Killer Reads recently, so we wanted to introduce the latest recruits to our editorial team – meet Finn and Kathryn.   How did you get into the HarperCollins Crime & Thriller world? Kathryn: I’ve always known that publishing is the… Read More

Author Helen Fields talks modern vs historical crime writing

We’re thrilled to welcome author Helen Fields to team Killer Reads! Helen spent thirteen years working as a criminal barrister before making the move to become a producer and writer of PERFECT REMAINS, the first in a nail-shredding new crime series from Avon,… Read More

Q&A with June Taylor, author of psychological page-turner Losing Juliet

‘A gripping tale, beautifully told, and with a shocking twist. A pitch perfect evocation of time and place. Unputdownable’ Frances Brody, author of the Kate Shackleton Mysteries     What sort of psychological thriller do you like? I love a… Read More

Killer Reads Q&A – Marnie Riches

  What drew you to the world of crime fiction? Even as a child, I loved a good thriller – sneaking a peek at my mother’s Harold Robbins books and her dog-eared copy of Peter Benchley’s Jaws, long before they would be deemed appropriate for a young reader, by… Read More

Top 5 Characters to Lock in a basement from Sunday Times bestseller Katerina Diamond

In The Secret by Sunday Times bestseller Katerina Diamond, a policewoman is kidnapped, left in a basement, and has her memory mysteriously wiped every night by her kind, gentle captor. So, naturally, we asked Katerina Diamond which fictional characters she’d want to lock up in a basement if she had… Read More

Cops Behaving Badly  

  It’s that time of year again, when we frolic on the dark side, flirt with bad spirits and inexplicably spurn perfectly-functioning reverse digits to ‘bob’ for apples. As I turn off the houselights, hide my confectionary and sit in the dark until it’s all over, it seems… Read More

All the events from the crime authors you love

HarperCollins has launched BookGig, a publisher agnostic online events platform that aims to connect authors with new and existing readers following the growth in live author events. Want to meet your favourite author? Get a book signed? Hear them debate the merits of cosy crime versus serial killers? The… Read More

The ‘Eureka!’ moment by Alex Lake

  Killing Kate came about when two otherwise unconnected ideas I had came together in an unexpected way. For a while I’d been considering writing a novel about a serial killer, but I wanted it to be a serial killer with a difference – a twist on the psychopath… Read More

Exclusive first look at KILLING KATE by Alex Lake, bestselling author of After Anna

Prologue: The Fab Four They had once been four. Kate, May, Gemma, and Beth. The Fab Four, their parents called them, with an affectionate nod to the original Fab Four from Liverpool and a wry nod to the fact that their teenage daughters happened to agree that they really were, after all,… Read More

Q&A with Kate Horsley, author of THE AMERICAN GIRL

What drew you to the world of crime fiction? I’ve been obsessed with things that go bump in the night since I can remember. I grew up a house that was rumoured to be haunted by a woman who’d lived there. The bedroom she died in was known as… Read More

A brave new world – by Jackie Baldwin, author of DEAD MAN’S PRAYER

The irony of being published as an ebook has not been lost on me. All my life, I have been easily frustrated by technology and prefer to use pen and paper and speak to a ‘real person.’ I used to run a busy court department with one large hard backed… Read More

Exclusive Extract from THE LEGACY OF THE BONES by Dolores Redondo

Get a sneak peak of The Legacy of the Bones the second book in Dolores Redondo’s atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar out 25th August in paperback!   CHAPTER ONE The atmosphere in the courthouse was stifling. The damp from rain-soaked overcoats was starting to… Read More