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Book Trailer: City on Fire by Don Winslow

The new trailer for Don Winslow's CITY ON FIRE. Exploring classic themes of loyalty, betrayal, honour, and corruption on both sides of the law, City on Fire is a contemporary Iliad from Don Winslow. Read More

DO YOU WANT TO WRITE A CRIME NOVEL?

We want to hear from you! HarperFiction is proud to launch Killing It: The Killer Reads Competition for undiscovered writers. All you need is a good idea, a passion for the dark side and a dollop of determination! Launching at the start of 2021 on January  7th, this is… 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 Invisible Guardian is becoming a film! First production still released.

Fans of the acclaimed trilogy by Dolores Redondo — with the first of the English translation in the series currently out in the UK — will be pleased to hear that filming has begun for The Invisible Guardian.  Filming locations include Elizondo, which is the actual village where the… Read More

Beer, Books and Banter: It Must Be the Annual Harrogate Launch Party!

Fuelled by a delicious new IPA from Yorkshire’s famous Theakston’s Brewery, mini pies and plenty of gossip and chat, a good night was had by all at the programme launch for the 2016 Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Festival, or ‘Harrogate’ as most regular festival-goers refer to it. Speeches… Read More

#TartanTakeover IN THE COLD DARK GROUND by Stuart MacBride competition

Desperate to get your mitts on a MacBride tartan edition of IN THE COLD DARK GROUND, signed and doodled by Stuart himself? Then this is the competition for you! To celebrate the fact that the 10th Logan McRae novel releases today, we’re going full on tartan… Read More

New chilling crime & thriller reads out 14 January 2016

ASHLEY BELL by Dean Koontz From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes the must-read thriller of the year, perfect for readers of dark psychological suspense and modern classics of mystery and adventure. Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman… Read More

Happy Publication Day to Jack Higgins and Catherine Hunt!

It’s publication Thursday here at Killer Reads HQ. We’re celebrating the publication of two very different but equally fabulous books out today. The legendary Jack Higgins is at it again with his latest installment of his bestselling Sean Dillon series. Whether you are a longtime… Read More

Happy Publication Day to Paul Finch & Sheena Lambert!

Heck needs to watch his back. Because someone’s watching him… Across the south of England, a series of bizarre but fatal accidents are taking place. So when a local businessman survives a near-drowning but is found burnt alive in his car just weeks later, DS Mark… Read More

Happy Publication Day to Dolores Redondo, Lauren Beukes, and C.L. Taylor!

We are very happy to announce we have not one, not two, but THREE book publications to celebrate today! THE INVISIBLE GUARDIAN by Dolores Redondo http://hyperurl.co/InvisibleGuardianHB First time it’s been published in the UK, this Spanish bestseller has taken Europe by storm. Myth versus… Read More

This Week’s International Bestselling Crime

Looking for a read that will take you a step further out of your country or cultural comfort zone? Let’s talk international crime. Topping the Amazon charts at the moment is The Hangman’s Daughter from German television screenwriter Oliver Pötzsch, Younger by Suzanne Munshower–a self-proclaimed returned expat, and Venice-residing American Donna Leon’s Falling in Love: A… Read More

Happy Publication Day Greg Iles, Alex Barclay, Stuart MacBride, & Mark Sanderson!

Four fabulous new titles out this Thursday. The electrifying second installment of the NATCHEZ BURNING trilogy by No.1 New York Times bestseller, Greg Iles — THE BONE TREE comes out today in the UK and Australia. US friends, you don’t have much longer to wait. The book comes… Read More