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In the UK's York, this year's Big City Read which runs from September 14 to November 10 will focus on Helen Cadbury's 2013 debut thriller, To Catch A Rabbit. Fiona Williams, chief executive of York Explore, which runs the city's network of libraries sponsoring the event, noted that this year's event will be "joy tinged with sadness" because York native Cadbury died last year at the age of 52.
The new Noireland International Crime Fiction Festival in Belfast has announced some of the lineup for its inaugural program October 27-29, 2017. Some of the team behind the BBC’s award-winning crime drama Line of Duty will be on hand, with plenty more panels and talks by special guest headliners Benjamin Black, Robert Crais, and Sophie Hannah.
If you're in the UK, you can sign up for the Guardian Masterclass "How to write a psychological thriller" and learn how to write a thrilling page-turner at this evening course with Erin Kelly, bestselling author of He Said/She Said and Poison Tree. The course will take place on Wednesday, November 29th, but participation is limited.
Editors Dr. Lucy Andrew (University of Chester) and Samuel Saunders (Liverpool John Moores University) have issued a call for papers on the topic of "A Study in Sidekicks: The Detective’s Assistant in Crime Fiction." This collection aims to explore the changing representations and functions of the detective’s sidekick across a range of forms and subgenres of crime fiction from the nineteenth century to the present day. If you're interested, submit an abstract of 300-350 words and biography of 50-100 words to Lucy Andrew (l.andrew@chester.ac.uk) and Sam Saunders (S.J.Saunders@2014.ljmu.ac.uk) by Monday 13th November 2017. (HT to Shots Magazine)
Why are literature’s greatest detectives seemingly all obsessed with food? The ezine Eater looked at what it meant to be a "foodie" in a world of crime, from Hercule Poirot to Nero Wolfe.
Writing for The Guardian, Alex Clark explored our fascination for stories of domestic desire, rage and revenge that are personified in the vengeful woman.
Author/blogger Margot Kinberg discussed crime novels featuring unreliable witnesses.
Writing for The Pool, Anne James looked at the role of women in crime fiction as both authors and victims and wondered if crime novels can also be feminist?
The WHSmith blog featured "10 Crime Fiction Novels Inspired by Real Life Crimes."
Real life is indded often much stranger than - and the inspiration for - fictional crime. The Daily Mail took a look at the true crimes and grotesque souvenirs of a Wisconsin bachelor who inspired film villains from Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs.
Sometimes the greatest mysteries aren't murders: what happened to some of the world's greatest treasures?
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "Just Us" by John Kaprielian.
In the Q&A roundup, award-winning crime writer Gail Bowen answered eight questions submitted by eight of her fellow writers in the CBC Books' Magic 8 Q&A; Margaret Maron spoke with the LA Review of Books about the final installment in her series with NYPD Lieutenant Sigrid Harald; Cat Hogan was interviewed by Declan Burke about Irish crime fiction and her latest book, There Was a Crooked Man; the Criminal Element spoke with Jussi Adler-Olsen about his Department Q series featuring the Copenhagen police force; and Tess Gerritsen stopped by the Huffington Post to discuss the latest installment in her Rizzoli and Isles series, I Know a Secret.
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