Despite the brilliance of Noomi Rapace in the original Swedish Film version of Stieg Larsson’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, it seems t...

The Bookseller announces it’s first Industry Awards - The first Bookseller Industry Awards shortlist has been announced with 16 categories ...

The Bookseller reports some big news for British Dennis Lehane fans – Little, Brown has fought off com­petition from four other publishers...

Crimefest have announced their Awards shortlist – The awards will be given out at Cimefest during the Gala Dinner at the Bristol Marriott Ro...

It just seems like yesterday when Roger Ellory told me about THE ANNIVERSARY MAN at last year’s London Book Fair, and now I read this from ...

I know I’ve been obsessed with the Stieg Larsson Trilogy from the ‘get-go’ but it seems the fever has spread throughout the UK As reported ...

The International Thriller Writers [ITW] are proud to announce the finalists for the 2010 Thriller Awards – Congratulations to the Nominated...

Crime Writer Adrian Magson emailed Shots Ezine recently about a change in the direction of his writing, so I asked him to let Shots know wh...

Some news worthy bits of information – Left Coast Crime has come and gone and some awards were given out in the process. They are as follow...

On Thursday 18 March the Swedish Ambassador Staffan Carlsson played host to a wide range of crime fiction reviews, authors and other dignita...

Website to help celebrate crime writing week The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has created a new website to promote National Crime Fictio...

Mark your diaries carefully for March 12th as two favourite novels of Shots Editors Mike Stotter and Ali Karim are revealed on the silver sc...

For any of you who are interested, here's the UK top best sellers as of 20th February - thanks to the BookSeller. 1. Gone Tomorrow - C...

2010 is shaping up to be a great year for Val McDermid . Not only is she being awarded the Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Associatio...

The Strand Magazine have announced its nominees for the 2009 Strand Magazine Critics Awards. Recognizing excellence in the field of myste...