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Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is one of the UK's top crime-fiction awards, sponsored by Theakston's Old Peculier. It is awarded annually at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival in the UK, held every July, as part of the Harrogate International Festivals Harrogate International Festivals (HIF) is a Registered Charity, registered charity and one of the UK's longest running arts festivals, having been established in 1966. It is based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Festivals include the Harrogate Mu .... The winner receives £3000 and a small hand-carved oak beer cask carved by one of Britain's last coopers. Novels eligible are those crime novels published in paperback any time during the previous year. Voting is by the public with decisions of a jury-panel also taken into account, a fact not-much publicised by the award organisers, who are keen to emphasize the public-voting aspect of the award. Recipients Outstanding Contribution References {{DEFAU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theakston's Old Peculier
T&R Theakston is a British brewery in Masham, North Yorkshire and the sixteenth largest brewer in the United Kingdom by market share. It is the second largest under family ownership, after Shepherd Neame, and is known for its Old Peculier beer. The brewery is one of the few remaining in the UK to have an in-house cooperage. History The business was founded in 1827 by Robert Theakston and John Wood at the Black Bull pub and brewhouse in College Lane, Masham. By 1832, Theakston had sole ownership of the brewery and in 1875 he passed control over to his sons Thomas and Robert. They formed the T&R Theakston partnership and constructed a new brewery on Paradise Fields, near the original site. In 1919, the company acquired the Lightfoot Brewery, also in Masham, now home to The White Bear. The business grew in North Yorkshire and benefitted from renewed interest in cask ale in the 1960s. To meet growing demand T&R Theakston bought the UK Government owned State Management Scheme, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child 44
''Child 44'' is a 2008 thriller novel by British writer Tom Rob Smith. It is the first novel in a trilogy featuring former MGB Agent Leo Demidov, who investigates a series of gruesome child murders in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. Themes This novel, the first in a trilogy, takes inspiration from the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo, also known as the Rostov Ripper, the Butcher of Rostov, and the Red Ripper. Chikatilo was convicted of and executed for committing 52 murders in the Soviet Union, though his crimes occurred after the Stalin era. In addition to highlighting the problem of Soviet-era crime in a state where "there is no crime", the novel explores the paranoia of the age, the education system, the secret police apparatus, the Holodomor, orphanages, homosexuality in the USSR and mental hospitals. The second and third books in the trilogy, titled '' The Secret Speech'' (April 2009) and '' Agent 6'' (July 2011), respectively, also feature the protagonist Leo Demidov and his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Ware
Ruth Warburton (born 1977), known by the alias Ruth Ware, is a British psychological thriller author. Her novels include ''In a Dark, Dark Wood'' (2015), ''The Woman in Cabin 10'' (2016), ''The Lying Game'' (2017), ''The Death of Mrs Westaway'' (2018), ''The Turn of the Key'' (2019), ''One By One'' (2020), ''The It Girl'' (2022) and ''Zero Days'' (2023). Both ''In a Dark, Dark Wood'' and ''The Woman in Cabin 10'' were on the UK's ''The Sunday Times, Sunday Times'' and ''The New York Times'' top ten bestseller lists. She is represented by Eve White of the Eve White Literary Agency. She switched to the pen name Ruth Ware to distinguish her crime novels from the Young adult fiction, young-adult fantasy novels published under her birth name. Personal life Ruth Ware was born in 1977 and grew up in Lewes. She studied English at University of Manchester, Manchester University, where she developed a fascination with Old English and Middle English texts. Before her writing career, Ware w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister (born 28 February 1985) is a British author, known for seven novels, all which have been bestsellers. Her works have been translated into 40 languages. Several of her novels have been optioned for television and film. Her works include ''Everything But The Truth'' (2017), ''Anything You Do Say'' (published as The Choice in North America), ''No Further Questions'' (published as ''The Good Sister'' in North America), ''The Evidence Against You'', ''How To Disappear'', and ''That Night'' which was a Richard & Judy book club pick and "Wrong Place Wrong Time" which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, Sunday Times Bestseller and New York Times bestseller. Life and career McAllister was born in Sutton Coldfield and raised in Tamworth. After attending Belgrave High School in Tamworth (now known as Tamworth Enterprise College) and receiving A-Levels, McAllister read English at the University of Birmingham, receiving a 2:1 BA Hons. She then converted to law, stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Johnstone
Doug Johnstone (born 22 July 1970) is a Scottish crime writer based in Edinburgh. His ninth novel ''Fault Lines'' was published by Orenda Books in May 2018. His 2015 book ''The Jump'' (published by Faber & Faber) was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Novel. He published two novels with Penguin, ''Tombstoning'' (2006) and '' The Ossians'' (2008), which received praise from Irvine Welsh, Ian Rankin and Christopher Brookmyre. ''The Scotsman'' described him as "a master of the page-turning, heart-gripping, plot-driven tale." Johnstone is a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow and he was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University from 2014–2016. He was a writer in residence at the University of Strathclyde from 2010-2012 and before that worked as a lecturer in creative writing. He has had several short stories appear in various publications, and since 1999 has worked as a freelance arts journalist, primarily covering music and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elly Griffiths
Domenica de Rosa (born 17 August 1963, in London), known by her pen name Elly Griffiths, is a British crime novelist. She has written three series as Griffiths, one featuring Ruth Galloway, one featuring Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto, and the Harbinder Kaur series. Early life After reading English at King's College London, Griffiths worked in publishing for many years. Writing career Griffiths' first series features as a main character forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, who lives in a remote seaside cottage near King's Lynn in Norfolk and teaches at the University of North Norfolk. This character was inspired by Griffiths' husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist, and her aunt, "who lives on the Norfolk coast and filled her niece's head with the myths and legends of that area". Griffiths released the first book in this series, ''The Crossing Places'' (''Ruth Galloway'' #1), in 2009. Griffiths' second series, set in 1950s Brighton, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Dean (author)
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Will Dean may refer to: * Will Dean (rower) (born 1987), Canadian rower * Will Dean (footballer) (born 2000), English soccer player * Will Dean (entrepreneur), English business founder See also * William Deans William Deans (baptised 31 January 1817 – 23 July 1851) was, together with his brother John, a pioneer farmer in Canterbury, New Zealand. He was born in Kirkstyle, Riccarton, Scotland. Their Riccarton farm in New Zealand was the first perman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Laura may refer to: People and fictional characters * Laura (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the name * Laura, muse of Petrarch's poetry * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert Places Australia * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula * Laura, South Australia, a town * Laura Bay, a bay on Eyre Peninsula * Laura River (Queensland) * Laura River (Western Australia) Italy * Laura (Capaccio), a village of the municipality of Capaccio, Campania * Laura, Crespina Lorenzana, a village in Tuscany United States * Laura, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Laura, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Laura, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Laura, Ohio, a village Elsewhere * Laura, Saskatchewan, Canada, a hamlet * Laura, Marshall Islands, a town * Laura, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, a village * Laura River (Romania) * 467 Laura, an asteroid Arts and entertainment Art * ''Laur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Sister, The Serial Killer
''My Sister, the Serial Killer'' is a 2018 thriller novel by Nigerian writer Oyinkan Braithwaite. Braithwaite's debut novel was originally published in Nigeria as an e-book with the title ''Thicker Than Water'' in 2017 before being released in the United States by Doubleday Books on 20 November 2018. Plot In Lagos, Nigeria, Korede is a nurse in a close relationship with her younger sister, Ayoola. Ayoola is the more beautiful, favored sister, and possibly sociopathic. For the third time in a row, Ayoola has stabbed her boyfriend to death, supposedly in self-defense. Like the previous times, Korede helps dispose of the body and clean away the evidence. Her practicality and concern keep Ayoola from acting suspiciously about her “missing” boyfriend, such as by posting to social media when she should be mourning. Korede feels unappreciated as she constantly dreads that they will be caught and that Ayoola will kill again. She confides in none but a comatose patient in the hospi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of Bounds (McDermid Novel)
''Out of Bounds'' is a 2016 crime drama novel by Scottish crime writer Val McDermid. The novel is set during 2016 but because the main detective is in the Historic Case Unit (HCU) the crimes being investigated were actually committed in 1994 and 1996. Synopsis Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie walks the streets of Leith in the small hours. She cannot sleep as her lover and colleague, Phil Parhatka, was killed in the last outing in this series ( The Skeleton Road). At night she encounters displaced Syrian refugees in alleyways and under bridges gathered together to try to be a community, as since coming to Scotland, they have nowhere to meet up. In 2016, a group of joyriders crash their stolen vehicle and the driver ends up in intensive care. The DNA of the offender leads Pirie to an unsolved rape/murder of a hairdresser from Partick in 1996. Tina McDonald was on a night out with some friends in Glasgow when she disappeared from the group before being found dead the next m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Career Of Evil
''Career of Evil'' is a crime novel written by British author J.K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the third novel in the '' Cormoran Strike'' series of detective novels, and was published on 20 October 2015. It is followed by '' Lethal White'' in 2018, '' Troubled Blood'' in 2020, '' The Ink Black Heart'' in 2022, and '' The Running Grave'' in 2023. Plot After murdering a woman, an unidentified man stalks Robin Ellacott, whom he sees as part of his plan to exact revenge against private investigator Cormoran Strike. Robin, having worked for Strike for a year, is now a full-time investigator in addition to being his secretary. Strike has developed a relationship with radio presenter Elin but continues to harbour feelings for Robin, whose fiancé Matthew disapproves of the work she is doing. One day, Robin receives a package containing a woman's severed leg and a message quoting the Blue Öyster Cult song "Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Let You Go
Clare Mackintosh is a British author and former police officer. Early life and education Mackintosh went to Royal Holloway University in Surrey, taking a degree in French and Management, and spent a year in Paris as part of the course, working as a bilingual secretary. Police career Mackintosh joined the police force upon graduation. She was posted on promotion to Chipping Norton as town sergeant before becoming Thames Valley Police's operations inspector for Oxfordshire. Mackintosh spent 12 years in the police force before leaving in 2011 to become a full-time writer. Novels Mackintosh's debut novel ''I Let You Go'', published in 2014, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick. It won Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016, beating J K Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith. In October 2016, the French translation of ''I Let You Go'' (''Te Laisser Partir'') won "best international novel" at the Cognac Festival Prix du Polar awards. Her second novel, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
