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Calling all literary critics! Write a Book Review for your chance to win

To launch the competition page on our website ‘You’re Booked’, the online community for crime readers and writers, we’re offering you the chance to win a goody bag crammed with exciting new books. We want your book reviews! If you regularly find yourself extolling the virtues, and downfalls, of the latest crime offerings then let [...]

Books up for grabs by 2011 Programming Chair Dreda Say Mitchell

To celebrate Dreda Say Mitchell’s return to Harrogate as this year’s chair, publisher Hodder & Stoughton have got a selection of her books to give away. To be in with a chance of winning simply email dredacomp@hodder.co.uk with the subject heading Hit Girls. Hodder will select 10 lucky winners at random on 25th July. Dreda [...]

Alibi’s Search for a New Crime Writer Competition returns for 2011

Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate has teamed up for the second year running with crime drama channel Alibi and HarperCollins Publishers to unearth some of the country’s hottest new crime-writing talent of 2011 and we’re asking you to submit your very own crime fiction short story. Your story should be between 1,000 and [...]

Finalists Revealed for ‘Alibi’s Search For A New Crime Writer’ Competition

Earlier this year, crime drama channel Alibi teamed up with world-renowned publisher HarperCollins, TV Times and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival to unearth some of the country’s hottest new crime-writing talent and we started by asking you to submit your very own crime fiction short story. The story had to begin with award-winning [...]

Murder Most Brief

We are pleased to announce the result of the 2009 Condense-a-Crime Classic Competition, judged by Laura Wilson. Many congratulations to Janet O’Kane for her Twitter-sized summary of Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. The Winning Entry The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie Two of my patients having died in quick succession – the [...]