On-line magazines, resourcesSome useful crime-related links for writers, readers or anyone just interested in the subject of crime, in fiction or fact.
On-line magazines, resources
Mystery Scene - interviews, news, reviews.
Deadly Pleasures - fan-oriented mystery magazine
Tangled Web - news, reviews and author profiles
Cluelass - news, links and other resources
Deadly Directory - lists of authors, events, book stores, etc
Macguffin - directory of authors, their books and protagonists
Web of Mystery - lots of links to the online mystery world
Crime and mystery bookstores
Murder One - on London's famous Charing Cross Road
The Poisoned Pen - one of the USA's largest mystery specialists
Black Orchid - great little Manhattan bookstore
Mysterious Bookshop - home of a famous spiral staircase
Partners and Crime - mystery in Greenwich village
Murder Ink - and more mystery on Manhattan's West Side
Creatures 'n' Crooks - everything you could want in Richmond, Va
San Francisco Mystery Bookstore - California independent
M is for Mystery - booksellers in San Mateo, California
Book 'em - another great store, this one in Pasadena
Coffee, Tea and Mystery - unique home of the Mystery Maven
Mysteries to Die For - in Thousand Oaks, California
Sleuth of Baker Street - the biggest mystery bookstore in Canada
Organisations
Crime Writers Association (UK)
Conferences and events
Left Coast Crime - the USA's West Coast convention, hosted in Bristol, England, in March 2006
Crime Scene - annual film and literary festival at the National Film Theatre, London, taking place in July
Bouchercon - the world's biggest mystery convention, to be held in September 2006 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Some favourite crime writers
Reginald Hill - the Dalziel and Pascoe series
Val McDermid - A Place of Execution and the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series
Danuta Reah - Sheffield-based psychological thrillers
Stuart Pawson - the DI Charlie Priest series, set in Yorkshire
Mark Billingham - Sleepyhead, Scaredy Cat and Lazybones
Minette Walters - award-winning best-sellers like The Sculptress
John Harvey - Nottingham-based DI Charlie Resnick series
John Baker - York private eye Sam Turner
Simon Kernick - The Busines of Dying and Murder Exchange
Clare Littleford - Nottingham-based author of Beholden and Death Duty
Chapter 6 - Julian Earwaker & Kathleen Becker, authors of Scene of the Crime - A Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective Fiction
Police, law enforcement, forensics
Derbyshire Constabulary - the real-life colleagues of Ben Cooper & Diane Fry
UK Police Services - links to many regional and specialist forces
Police Federation - represents junior officers in British police
Interpol - international law enforcement agency
Europol - co-ordinates law enforcement in Europe
MI5 - British secret service now with its own web site
Dean Fettero's Forensic Page - good info and links
Zeno's Forensic Page - lots more forensic links
Online communities, newsgroups
and discussion lists
And one for morris dancers:
Black Pig Border - the
side involved in the research for BLIND TO THE BONES, who also appeared in an
epsiode of 'Peak Practice'!
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