Jerry Aylward
Type of books: Historical, Mystery, True Crime
Most recent publication: The Scarlet Oak
Find writers for your event
The Crime Writers’ Association has a hugely varied membership crossing all areas of the genre, from mystery and psychological thrillers to historical whodunits and YA. Below is a list of our members who are available for events during National Crime Reading Month (and beyond!).
Contact each author via email or their listed website to invite them to take part in your event.
Where possible, we encourage you to pay authors for events. If you are charging for tickets to an event, it’s essential that guest authors are paid.
Erik Meyers
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Mystery
Most recent publication: Caged Time
Karin Nordin
Type of books: Noir, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Last One Alive
Simon Van de Velde
Type of books: Action, Gangster, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Silent Brother
Claire Allan
Type of books: Psychological, Scripted works, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Nurse
Tony Forder
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Espionage, Gangster, Mystery, Noir, Political, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Darker Days to Come (DI Bliss #9)
Liza Costello
Type of books: Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Crookedwood
Joy Kluver
Type of books: Procedural
Most recent publication: Left For Dead
Howard Matthews
Type of books: Cosy, Historical, Humour, Mystery
Most recent publication: The Investigator’s Wedding
Caroline Dunford
Type of books: Amateur detective, Espionage, Humour, Psychological
Most recent publication: Hope for Tomorrow
Hilary Pugh
Type of books: Cosy, Humour, Mystery
Most recent publication: Mystery at Murriemuir
TG Reid
Type of books: Action, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Dark is the Grave : An Edge-Of-Your-Seat Scottish Detective Thriller (DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thrillers Book 1)
Victoria Selman
Type of books: Psychological, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Truly Darkly Deeply
Sohom Das
Type of books: Biography, Gangster, Legal, Medical, Psychological, Science, True Crime
Michael Lynes
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Historical, Mystery
Most recent publication: The Heretic’s Daughter
Daniel Godfrey
Type of books: Historical, Science Fiction
Most recent publication: The Synapse Sequence
Frank Malley
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Espionage, Historical, Humour, Mystery
Most recent publication: The 13th Assassin
Jonathan Wilkins
Type of books: Amateur detective, Gangster, Historical, Mystery, Procedural, Romantic
Most recent publication: Utrecht Snow
Elizabeth Ducie
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Espionage, Gangster, Historical, Humour, Medical, Mystery, Political, Science
Most recent publication: Murder at Mountjoy Manor
D.L. Marshall
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Biography, Espionage, Historical, Scripted works, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Black Run
Jacqui Black
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Mystery
Most recent publication: FATHOM
Sharon Dempsey
Type of books: Literary criticism, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Midnight Killing
Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, Mystery, Procedural, Romantic
P.N. Johnson
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Mystery, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: Killer in the Crowd by PN Johnson
Ann Bloxwich
Type of books: Procedural
Most recent publication: What Goes Around (DI Alex Peachey book 1)
Steven Savile
Type of books: Action, Fantasy, Political, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Black Shepherd
Robert Murphy
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural, True Crime
Most recent publication: To Hunt A Killer
Andrew Edwards
Type of books: Psychological, Science, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Psychopath
Susan Grossey
Type of books: Historical, Humour, Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: Notes of Change
CE Rose
Type of books: Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Romantic, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The House on the Water’s Edge
Sarah Walton
Type of books: Historical, Psychological, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: THE SILK PAVILION
Harry Navinski
Type of books: Action, Historical, Procedural
Most recent publication: The Duty (a not so Scottish murder)
Fiona Forsyth
Type of books: Historical, Mystery, Political
Most recent publication: The Emperor’s Servant
Robin Perrie
Type of books: True Crime
Most recent publication: I’m The Yorkshire Ripper
Catherine Yaffe
Type of books: Action, Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Lie She Told
Katy Watson
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy
Most recent publication: The Three Dahlias
Edie Baylis
Type of books: Action, Gangster, Noir, Psychological, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: Fallout
Penny Batchelor
Type of books: Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Her New Best Friend
Bryan J Mason
Type of books: Historical, Humour, Mystery, Noir, Political
Most recent publication: Shaking Hands with the Devil
Lynne McEwan
Type of books: Procedural
Most recent publication: IN DARK WATER
Liz Webb
Type of books: Mystery, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Daughter
Rachel Amphlett
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Espionage, Legal, Mystery, Noir, Political, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: A Silent Truth
Connie Berry
Type of books: Mystery
Robert Chandler
Type of books: Amateur detective, Mystery, Procedural, Romantic, Supernatural
Most recent publication: Rosary Road
Jacquie Rogers
Type of books: Archaeology, Historical
Most recent publication: The Governor’s Man
Helen Cooper
Type of books: Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Downstairs Neighbour
Stephen Timmins
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Espionage, Gangster, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Fortieth Step, Volume Three: Promise
Holly Seddon
Type of books: Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Woman on the Bridge
Mark Wightman
Type of books: Historical, Mystery, Noir, Political
Most recent publication: Waking the Tiger
Amer Anwar
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Gangster, Humour, Mystery, Noir, Suspense
Most recent publication: Stone Cold Trouble
Louise Mumford
Type of books: Action, Psychological, Science Fiction, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Safe House
Alison Morgan
Type of books: Humour, Mystery, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Over Her Dead Body
Bryony Pearce
Type of books: Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Little Rumours
Antony Dunford
Type of books: Action, Suspense
Most recent publication: Hunted
Stephen Bentley
Type of books: Action, Biography, Gangster, Legal, Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Operation George: A Gripping True Crime Story of an Audacious Undercover Sting
Fiona Erskine
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Biography, Mystery, Science
Most recent publication: The Chemical Cocktail
Jonathan Peace
Type of books: Historical, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Dirty Little Secret
Stephanie Harte
Type of books: Gangster
Most recent publication: Playing With Fire
G. M. Malliet
Type of books: Cosy, Humour, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: DEATH IN CORNWALL
Bernard O’Keeffe
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: The Final Round
Glenda Young
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour
Most recent publication: Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel (set in Scarborough)
Rebecca Millar
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Humour, Legal, Medical, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Romantic, Science, Suspense
Most recent publication: Crime Fiction Editor
John Kennedy
Type of books: Action, Noir, Procedural, Science Fiction, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Kill Chain
Julie Anderson
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Espionage, Mystery, Noir, Political, Psychological, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: Oracle
Jane Bettany
Type of books: Cosy, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Last Seen Alive
Paul Waters
Type of books: Action, Historical, Noir, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Blackwatertown
Rob McInroy
Type of books: Historical
Most recent publication: Barossa Street
H L Marsay
Type of books: Cosy, Historical, Humour, Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: A Roman Shadow
Jamie Morgan Kane
Type of books: Action, True Crime
Sean Gibbons
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Espionage, Gangster, Historical, Humour, Mystery, Noir, Suspense
Most recent publication: City of Death
Robin Jarossi
Type of books: Gangster, Noir, True Crime
Most recent publication: Murder by the Sea Vol 1
Robin Blake
Type of books: Historical
Most recent publication: Hungry Death
Leslie Scase
Type of books: Historical, Mystery, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Fatal Solution
Victoria Dowd
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, Legal, Mystery
Most recent publication: A Book of Murder
L J Morris
Type of books: Action, Suspense
Charlie Garratt
Type of books: Historical, Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: A Malignant Death
Sarah Linley
Type of books: Amateur detective, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Wedding Murders
Miranda Rijks
Type of books: Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The New Neighbour
Diane Saxon
Type of books: Procedural, Psychological
Most recent publication: Find Her Alive
Tom Mead
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Mystery, Psychological
Most recent publication: Death and the Conjuror
Sherryl Clark
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Gangster, Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: Dead and Gone
Stephanie Austin
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Suspense
Most recent publication: A devon Night’s Death
Candy Denman
Type of books: Medical, Mystery
Most recent publication: A Police Doctor Investigates: The Sussex Murder Mysteries (Books 1-3)
Gaynor Torrance
Type of books: Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Caerphilly Mountain Killings
Jane G Harlond
Type of books: Action, Cosy, Espionage, Fantasy, Historical, Humour, Mystery, Political, Procedural, Romantic
Most recent publication: Courting Danger
Alex Chaudhuri
Type of books: Amateur detective, Legal, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Loyal Friend
Noelle Holten
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Dead Mercy
Jim Eldridge
Type of books: Historical
Most recent publication: Murder at Claridges
Allan Martin
Type of books: Historical, Noir, Political, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Dead of Appin
Anne Penketh
Type of books: Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Murder at the Manor
Tony White
Type of books: Mystery, Political, Procedural
Most recent publication: The Fountain in the Forest
Antony Johnston
Type of books: Action, Espionage, Political, Procedural, Science Fiction
Most recent publication: The Tempus Project
Matthew Booth
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Legal, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: A Talent for Murder: An Everett Carr Mystery
Graham Brack
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Humour, Political, Procedural
Most recent publication: The Lying Dutchman
Caroline England
Type of books: Legal, Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Romantic, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Sinner
Chris Curran
Type of books: Amateur detective, Mystery, Noir, Psychological
Most recent publication: THE GUESTHOUSE (as Abbie Frost)
Katherine Stansfield
Type of books: Amateur detective, Fantasy, Historical, Psychological, Supernatural
Most recent publication: The Mermaid’s Call
Philip G Jones
Type of books: Amateur detective, Humour
Most recent publication: The Venetian Legacy
Anne Coates
Type of books: Amateur detective, Mystery
Most recent publication: Stage Call
Alice Castle
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, Noir, Psychological, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Invitation
Graham Bartlett
Type of books: Historical, Procedural, True Crime
Most recent publication: Bad for Good
Dea Parkin
Type of books: Scripted works, Suspense
Most recent publication: Music of the Night
Angela Wren
Type of books: Cosy, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Suspense
Most recent publication: Dark Paris
Simon Michael
Type of books: Amateur detective, Gangster, Historical, Legal, Noir, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Final Shot
Roger A Price
Type of books: Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Hidden
Sam Blake
Type of books: Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Remember My Name
Mike Hollow
Type of books: Cosy, Historical, Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: The Pimlico Murder
Lea O’Harra
Type of books: Cosy
Chris Lloyd
Type of books: Historical, Noir, Procedural
Most recent publication: The Unwanted Dead
Steve Cavanagh
Type of books: Legal, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Accomplice
Mark Ellis
Type of books: Historical, Noir, Procedural
Most recent publication: Dead In The Water
Susan Wilkins
Type of books: Gangster, Medical, Noir, Political, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: She’s Gone
P.D Viner
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Call
David Hodges
Type of books: Action, Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: VENOM ON THE LEVELS
Paul Gitsham
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: DCI Warren Jones: Time To Kill
Jeff Dowson
Type of books: Action, Historical, Mystery, Political, Scripted works
Most recent publication: New Friends Old Enemies
Linda Stratmann
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Noir
Most recent publication: Sherlock Holmes and the Explorers Club
Leo McNeir
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Archaeology, Cosy, Historical, Mystery
Most recent publication: Gospel Truth/Pilgrims
Sheila Bugler
Type of books: Amateur detective, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Lucky Eight
Gordon Brown
Type of books: Action, Humour, Mystery
Most recent publication: Six Wounds
Martin Edwards
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Life of Crime