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Paula Hawkins shares what makes a great page-turner as she launches Prima ’s 2025 short story writing competition

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Can you work out whodunnit when a woman is killed at the Little Snodbury Crime Festival?

BESTSELLING CRIME WRITER MICK HERRON TELLS CRIME MONTHLY ABOUT HIS WRITING LIFE

‘Sam is asleep. I could kill him now.’ These are the opening eight words of my first novel, Eeny Meeny, published a lifetime ago in 2014, which launched fearless crime fighter, Detective Inspector Hel

WHAT d’you reckon, sir?” Sergeant Winner sidled up to his long-time inspector with a worried look. His grey eyes swivelled towards a swelling crowd of newspaper men. Under an early-morning sky which t