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

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

Thriller writer Erin Kelly recommends the reads you need when you want to let loose

‘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

One of my favourite books of the past few years is Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It’s had a big impact on my own writing – early next year I have a book coming out that’s written as

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