The last Killer Crime Club newsletter

Sadly this bumper edition will be the last Killer Crime Club newsletter, I will miss it

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Dear Crime Club Thank you to each and every Crime Club Member for being a part of our community of readers and supporting the work of the Killer Women. It's been a long, wild ride since Louise Millar and Mel McGrath had the idea to set up an author collective of women crime writers and more than five years since the Killer Women all got together.  Since those first tentative days we've achieved so much. Press coverage in the UK and internationally. The first crime fiction and drama festival in London, covered by the BBC no less. A murder mystery that toured around the country. Trips to the Shetland Islands and the Channel Islands. And we've had so much fun supporting one another over gallons of wine. Killer Women achieved all the things we set out to do and a few more besides.  The pandemic has changed a great deal, including, for some of us, the way we work and the things we want to do with our lives. It has also altered the publishing landscape in a way that, we now feel, means it's a good time to say a big thank you to everyone who came along for the ride and bring Killer Women to a close. So this is our last (bumper edition) Crime Club newsletter and before we say goodbye we thought we'd give a last shout out to some fantastic new and forthcoming books from Killer Women and point you lovely lot towards some of our individual websites and newsletters.  Thanks for reading our books, coming to our events and being part of Crime Club.     Congratulations to Paula Hawkins and Sharon Bolton for their 2022 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards longlistings which were announced this week. .  Honouring the very best in crime writing, the annual awards are the oldest in the genre and see A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins in the running for the Gold Dagger, awarded for the crime novel of the year. Sharon Bolton's The Pact  is up for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, awarded for best thriller of the year. You can follow Paula on Instagram and sign up to Sharon's Book Club here. Check out Alison Joseph's short story which is part of a fabulous anthology from members of the Crime Writers Association, Music of the Night, published by Flame Tree (out now). Stay in touch with Alison via alisonjoseph.com Amanda Jennings's The Haven, the latest hypnotic, dark thriller from the author of The Cliff House, was published in March. For more details on everything Amanda's up to go to www.amandajennings.co.uk or follow her on Twitter. . .  Sarah Hilary's new standalone Fragile is out now from Pan Macmillan. Mick Herron called it ‘a dark river of a book’ while Erin Kelly said, ‘Timeless, tense and tender, Fragile will worm its way deep into your heart.’ Follow Sarah on Twitter or subscribe to her newsletter for events and latest news at http://sarahhilary.com/subscribe/   You can pre-order Julia Crouch's new psychological thriller The Daughters now and it is out on 26 May from Bookouture. Join her newsletter and discover latest news at http://juliacrouch.co.uk/   The Island of Lost Girls is coming out in July from Alex Marwood. Sun-drenched glamour and obscene wealth hide the darkest of secrets and lost girls in this ripped-from-the-headlines thriller. Follow Alex on Twitter here. Tammy Cohen's The Wedding Party is out now -  described by Lisa Jewell as 'a sparkling, thrilling whodunit with a cast of extraordinarily well-realised characters and a setting that will take your breath away.'  Her forthcoming book (written as Rachel Rhys),The Companion, is set in Florence in 1927. Folllow Tammy on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or go to https://tammycohen.co.uk/ for all her latest news. Mel McGrath's Two Wrongs ('deliciously disturbing' Ann Cleeves) is currently just 99p on Amazon and her new novel Tell Me Your Secrets will be published in September 2022. Go to www.melaniemcgrath.com to sign up to her newsletter and follow on Twitter here.   Thanks once again for all your support over the years. Stay safe everyone!             Copyright © 2017 Killer Women, All rights reserved.

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