30 June 2016
Finland conference on crime narratives
The University of Tampere in Finland is to host a one-day academic conference on “New Approaches to Studying Crime Narratives” on 14 October 2016.
There is no conference fee, but participants must cover all costs for their travel, accommodation and subsistence.
29 June 2016
BOTM: 'The Secret' by Deric Henderson
Filed under:
Book of the Month.
Our June Book of the Month: The Secret (2016).
Originally published as Let This Be Our Secret (2011), it has just been republished as a media tie-in to the ITV drama starring James Nesbitt and Genevieve O'Reilly.
28 June 2016
More drama from Iceland: season 2 of 'Fortitude'
Filed under:
News,
Nordic noir,
TV & film,
Video
Iceland is increasingly the setting of psychological thrillers and crime dramas on the small screen, and more are in the pipeline.
23 June 2016
Crime at the Dublin Writers' Conference
There are no fewer than four crime writers taking part at the Dublin Writers' Conference this weekend, from 24 to 26 June 2016 - Louise Phillips, Michael Russell, Sheila Bugler and Laurence O'Bryan.
This is the second year of the conference, which takes place at the Irish Writers Centre and at the Gresham hotel nearby. It includes sessions for writers on digital marketing and writing craft.
22 June 2016
Frankie Gaffney live in the Gingerman pub
Frankie Gaffney reading from his debut novel Dublin Seven in Dublin earlier this month, filmed by Dave Lordan of Bog TV.
21 June 2016
TV3's Red Rock comes to daytime BBC
Filed under:
News,
Police procedurals,
TV & film
Red Rock, TV3's award-winning drama serial set around a busy garda station, comes to BBC daytime television this summer. TV3 chief Pat Kiely has described it as "one of the biggest export deals in the history of Irish broadcasting". Amazon Prime has also snapped up the series for €1.5 million.
20 June 2016
'Dead Along the Way' is on the way
Dead Along The Way is a new Irish crime comedy about a pair of wedding videographers who are trying to hide the corpse of their loan shark before a wedding.
16 June 2016
Major new study on crime fiction and the state
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News
Belfast-based academic Andrew Pepper has penned five detective novels set in 19th-century Britain and Ireland. He is also Senior Lecturer in English and American literature at Queen's University, specialising "mainly in the areas of transnational crime fiction, spy/espionage fiction and contemporary fiction that examines security and policing issues".
His new study Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State (Oxford University Press) describes itself as "the first book to explore the significance of crime fiction's relationship to the state".
15 June 2016
Noir at the Bar, Belfast
The Noir at the Bar crime fiction evening in the Belfast Book Festival has a stellar line-up: Gerard Brennan - who has curated the evening - Steve Cavanagh, Kelly Creighton, Brian McGilloway and Stuart Neville.
It takes place on Wednesday, 15 June 2016, at 8.30 pm in the Errigle Inn on the Ormeau Road (the pub is also showing the Euro 2016 matches). Tickets via the Crescent Arts Centre.
- Find more upcoming crime fiction events.
13 June 2016
Crime novelists at Edinburgh book festival
The 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival, which runs from 13 to 29 August, features over 800 writers, poets, illustrators, politicians, journalists, historians, scientists, philosophers and playwrights from 55 countries.
9 June 2016
Martin Compston to play serial killer on ITV
Filed under:
Murder mystery,
News,
TV & film
2 June 2016
1 June 2016
Tara Moore makes the switch to crime fiction
Filed under:
Murder mystery,
Police procedurals
Tara Moore writes in other genres and under other names, but has recently switched to a series of crime thrillers beginning with Fade to Dead (May 2016).
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