Wendy Church
Type of books: Action, Humour, Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: Knife Skills
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!).
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Type of books: Action, Humour, Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: Knife Skills
Type of books: Noir, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Salt Cutter
Type of books: Action, Humour, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: Dark Arts
Type of books: Biography, Historical, Procedural, True Crime
Most recent publication: Jack the Ripper – The Policeman
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Fantasy, Gangster, Humour, Mystery, Noir, Political, Psychological
Most recent publication: A Brand to Die For
Type of books: Psychological
Most recent publication: The Patient
Type of books: Cosy, Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: Death on the Adriatic
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Heel of Achilles
Type of books: Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Perfect Couple
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Humour, Mystery
Most recent publication: The Mystery of Treefall Manor
Type of books: Amateur detective, Biography, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Romantic, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: The Spirit Engineer
Type of books: Humour, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: Bad Men
Type of books: Action, Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: Dig Two Graves
Type of books: Amateur detective, Humour, Mystery, Noir, Procedural
Most recent publication: Losers Club
Type of books: Noir, Psychological
Most recent publication: Dark in Different Ways
Type of books: Mystery, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Grass Widow
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Mystery
Most recent publication: Murder on the Farm
Type of books: Action, Biography, Gangster, Mystery, Noir, Political, Scripted works, Suspense
Most recent publication: Motherless Child: The Definitive Biography of Eric Clapton
Type of books: Noir
Most recent publication: Cuckoos on the Mersey
Type of books: Action, Procedural
Most recent publication: Dark Shadow
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Literary criticism, Mystery, Political, Suspense
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Espionage, Humour, Romantic, Science, Suspense
Most recent publication: BODYGUARD MOST WANTED
Type of books: Amateur detective, Espionage, Gangster, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Suspense
Type of books: Historical, Medical, Mystery, Noir, Scripted works, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Last One Alive
Type of books: Historical, True Crime
Most recent publication: One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper
Type of books: Legal, Mystery, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Other Couple
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Mystery, Romantic
Most recent publication: A Traitor in Whitehall
Type of books: Psychological
Most recent publication: The Woods Are Waiting
Type of books: Action, Espionage, Gangster, Mystery, Noir, Political, Procedural
Most recent publication: No Rules Apply
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural, Psychological
Most recent publication: Crimson Dragon
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural, Psychological
Most recent publication: Seven Days To Die
Type of books: Legal, Psychological
Most recent publication: Indefensible
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Mystery
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical
Most recent publication: Death in the Garden of England
Type of books: Biography, Historical, Legal, True Crime
Most recent publication: Murder: The Biography
Type of books: Psychological
Most recent publication: The Skeleton Key
Type of books: Cosy, True Crime
Most recent publication: Unforgiven: Face to Face with my Father’s Killer
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Humour, Mystery
Most recent publication: Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast
Type of books: Action, Gangster, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: THE BELFAST CRIME SERIES VOL.1
Type of books: Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: You Know What You Did (Dutton, April 2024)
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Village Hall Vendetta
Type of books: Medical
Most recent publication: The Doctor
Type of books: Mystery, Science Fiction
Most recent publication: Mortal Mission
Type of books: Cosy, Mystery, Science Fiction
Most recent publication: Toxic Vows
Type of books: Mystery, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Flight
Type of books: Action, Gangster, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: Red Beam of Day
Type of books: Action, Biography, Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: The Siege
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Humour, Literary criticism, Mystery, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: Meet Me in Milan
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Literary criticism, Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: Murder at Bletchley Park
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Mystery
Most recent publication: An American in Scotland
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Espionage, Historical, Humour, Medical, Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Romantic, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Hipkiss File
Type of books: Action, Espionage, Humour, Legal, Mystery, Political
Most recent publication: ‘Red Light and Bell’
Type of books:
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: Shame the Devil
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: Death Foretold
Type of books: Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Last To Leave
Type of books: Cosy
Most recent publication: Marriage is Murder
Type of books: Mystery
Most recent publication: Mac’s Christmas Present
Type of books: Biography, Cosy, Humour, Legal, Medical, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: She’s Not There
Type of books: Cosy, Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Confessions of an Undercover Cop
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, Mystery
Most recent publication: Dying To Bake
Type of books: Suspense
Most recent publication: Unsolved
Type of books: Cosy, Humour, Mystery, Romantic
Most recent publication: Friends Lovers Killers (A Mumford Mystery Book 2)
Type of books: Historical, Mystery
Most recent publication: The Conjuror’s Apprentice
Type of books: Espionage
Most recent publication: The Cassandra Complex
Type of books: Procedural, Psychological
Most recent publication: If We Were One
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Mystery, Romantic
Most recent publication: The Case of the Undiscovered Corpse
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Mystery
Most recent publication: Death on the Pier
Type of books: Medical, Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: My Husband’s Lies
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural, Psychological
Most recent publication: No Justice
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Mystery, Suspense
Type of books: Amateur detective, Noir, Psychological
Most recent publication: The Next to Die
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Espionage, Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: Betrayed By The Truth
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, Mystery
Most recent publication: The Sasquatch of Harriman Lake
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Mystery, Romantic
Most recent publication: Murder Under the Mistletoe
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, Mystery
Most recent publication: A Most Unusual Demise
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: When Evil Wakes
Type of books: Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Breaking
Type of books: Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Velocity of Blood
Type of books: Amateur detective, Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Associate
Type of books: Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: THE HIVE
Type of books: Action, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Box
Type of books: Action, Espionage, Gangster, Legal, Mystery, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Abduction
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: The Chalk Man: Rutherford Barnes #4
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Archaeology, Cosy, Gangster, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Romantic, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Murder at the Farm
Type of books: Biography, Mystery, Romantic, True Crime
Most recent publication: The Jockey’s Wife
Type of books: Historical, Mystery, True Crime
Most recent publication: The Scarlet Oak
Type of books: Literary criticism, Political, Psychological, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: Lessons in Love and Other Crimes
Type of books: Amateur detective, Mystery
Most recent publication: Death in the Ozarks
Type of books: Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Accident
Type of books: Procedural
Most recent publication: Left For Dead
Type of books: Cosy, Historical, Humour, Mystery
Most recent publication: How Many Monks?
Type of books: Psychological, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Truly Darkly Deeply
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Espionage, Historical, Humour, Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Killing Circle
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Espionage, Gangster, Historical, Medical, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Romantic
Most recent publication: Poppy Blossoms Amongst The Dead
Type of books: Psychological
Most recent publication: The Divide in The Book of Bristol
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, Mystery, Procedural, Romantic, Science
Most recent publication: A Murder of Crows
Type of books: Procedural
Most recent publication: What Goes Around (DI Alex Peachey book 1)
Type of books: Action, Fantasy, Political, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Black Shepherd
Type of books: Fantasy, Psychological, Science, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Psychopath
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: A Matter of Respect
Type of books:
Most recent publication: Bloody Butcher
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Mystery
Most recent publication: Good Neighbours
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Gangster, Historical, Mystery, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Last Walk
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Humour, Mystery, Noir, Supernatural
Type of books: Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Apartment Upstairs
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy
Most recent publication: The Three Dahlias
Type of books: Espionage, Historical, Noir, Procedural, True Crime
Most recent publication: The Kohat Connection
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Political, Romantic, Scripted works, Suspense
Type of books: Espionage, Historical, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: Lucifer’s Game
Type of books: Mystery, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Ski Trip
Type of books: Amateur detective, Biography, Gangster, Mystery, Noir, Supernatural, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Who Killed Wonderboy? and other stories
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Espionage, Historical, Mystery, Procedural, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Last Letter from London
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Back from the Dead
Type of books: Archaeology, Procedural
Most recent publication: THE GIRLS IN THE GLEN
Type of books: Mystery, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Saved
Type of books: Action, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Soho Killer
Type of books: Mystery
Type of books: Amateur detective, Mystery, Procedural, Romantic, Supernatural
Most recent publication: Rosary Road
Type of books: Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Couple In The Photo
Type of books: Amateur detective, Gangster, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Scripted works
Most recent publication: Dead Language & Other Stories
Type of books: Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Woman on the Bridge
Type of books: Archaeology, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Political
Most recent publication: Waking the Tiger
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Gangster, Humour, Mystery, Noir, Suspense
Most recent publication: Stone Cold Trouble
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Noir, Political, Suspense
Most recent publication: This Wild, Wild Country
Type of books: Action, Mystery, Noir, Political, Suspense
Most recent publication: No Country for Girls
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Mystery
Most recent publication: Murder in Primrose Hill
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Medical, Mystery
Most recent publication: Murder At Merewood Hospital
Type of books: Action, Mystery, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Hotel
Type of books: Amateur detective, Fantasy, Procedural
Most recent publication: The Spy
Type of books: Cosy, Historical, Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: A Perfect Time to Murder
Type of books: Humour, Mystery, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Over Her Dead Body
Type of books: Amateur detective, Biography, Cosy, Gangster, Historical, Humour, Legal, Political, True Crime
Most recent publication: Private Inquiries: The Secret History of Female Sleuths
Type of books: Action, Suspense
Most recent publication: Born the Same
Type of books: Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Dream Home
Type of books:
Type of books: Gangster
Most recent publication: Burning Bridges
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Humour, Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Scripted works, Suspense
Most recent publication: THE WASHING AWAY OF WRONGS
Type of books: Cosy, Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: Every Trick in the Book
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour
Most recent publication: Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel (set in Scarborough)
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Humour, Legal, Medical, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Romantic, Science, Suspense
Most recent publication: Crime Fiction Editor
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Espionage, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Political, Psychological, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Midnight Man
Type of books: Action, Gangster, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Dead Man Walking
Type of books: Action, Historical, Noir, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Blackwatertown
Type of books: Procedural
Most recent publication: Deadly Sacrifice
Type of books: Amateur detective, Biography, Cosy, Historical, Humour, Mystery, Political
Most recent publication: A Death in Diamonds
Type of books: Mystery, Noir, Suspense
Most recent publication: Italian Rules
Type of books: Amateur detective, Gangster, Humour, Literary criticism, Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Crafting Crime Fiction
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Mystery, Noir
Most recent publication: THE PERFECT HOUSE FOR MURDER
Type of books: Gangster, Noir, True Crime
Most recent publication: The Real Ted Hastings
Type of books: Historical
Most recent publication: Hungry Death
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, Legal, Mystery
Most recent publication: Murder Most Cold
Type of books: Amateur detective, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Wedding Murders
Type of books: Mystery, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Other Mother
Type of books: Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: My Sister’s Secret
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Mystery, Psychological
Most recent publication: The Murder Wheel
Type of books: Psychological
Most recent publication: The Babysitter
Type of books: Medical, Mystery
Most recent publication: A Police Doctor Investigates: The Sussex Murder Mysteries (Books 1-3)
Type of books: Action, Mystery, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Vanished
Type of books: Action, Procedural, Psychological, Science, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Cutting Room
Type of books: Amateur detective, Legal, Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Final Party
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: Pilgrimage to Death
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Mystery, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: Murder in a French Village
Type of books: Cosy, Gangster, Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Stone Cold Killing
Type of books: Literary criticism
Most recent publication: How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel
Type of books: Historical
Most recent publication: Murder at Claridges
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour
Most recent publication: Stop Cock
Type of books: Procedural, Psychological, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: Her Hidden Shadow
Type of books: Action, Biography, Legal, Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Left For Dead
Type of books: Action, Espionage, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Political, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Our Man In Kuwait
Type of books: Action, Historical, Mystery, Procedural, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Mind the KIller
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Gangster, Humour, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Bad Neighbour
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Brittany Murders
Type of books: Mystery, Political, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Fountain in the Forest
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Humour, Political, Procedural
Most recent publication: The Murdered Molls
Type of books: Action, Historical, Mystery
Most recent publication: Hudson’s Kill
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Archaeology, Gangster, Historical, Humour, Mystery, Psychological, Romantic, Scripted works, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Bitter End
Type of books: Amateur detective, Mystery, Noir, Psychological
Most recent publication: THE GUESTHOUSE (as Abbie Frost)
Type of books: Amateur detective, Humour
Most recent publication: The Venetian Legacy
Type of books: Amateur detective, Mystery
Most recent publication: Murder in the Lady Chapel
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, Noir, Psychological, Romantic, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Murder Mystery
Type of books: Fantasy, Gangster, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Price to Pay: a devious, twist-ridden page turner
Type of books: Historical, Procedural, True Crime
Most recent publication: City on Fire
Type of books: Legal, Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Ambrosia Project
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Historical, Humour, Noir, Romantic, Suspense
Type of books: Amateur detective, Archaeology, Mystery, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: Night Falls, Still Missing
Type of books: Amateur detective, Gangster, Historical, Legal, Noir, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Final Shot
Type of books: Espionage, Mystery, Procedural, Suspense
Most recent publication: THE CABAL
Type of books: Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Mystery of Four
Type of books: Cosy, Historical, Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: The Covent Garden Murder
Type of books: Espionage, Historical, Political, Suspense
Most recent publication: By Treason We Perish
Type of books: Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: Dead Reckoning, Sharpe Books, September 29, 2022
Type of books: Historical, Noir, Procedural
Most recent publication: Paris Requiem
Type of books: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, Humour, Mystery, Noir
Most recent publication: The Family Tree Mystery
Type of books: Biography, Cosy, Mystery, Romantic
Most recent publication: Murder at Mount Ephraim
Type of books: Historical, Noir, Procedural
Most recent publication: Dead In The Water
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Vanishing of Class 3B
Type of books: Historical, True Crime
Most recent publication: Detective Caminada’s Casebook
Type of books: Humour, Medical, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Party Season
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Gangster, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Suspense
Most recent publication: The Call
Type of books: Mystery, Procedural
Most recent publication: DCI Warren Jones: Web of Lies
Type of books: Amateur detective, Archaeology, Espionage, Historical, Political, Romantic, Supernatural
Most recent publication: Blackshirt Conspiracy
Type of books: Action, Amateur detective, Biography, Gangster, Historical, Legal, Mystery, Noir, Political, Suspense, True Crime
Type of books: Cosy, Historical, Mystery, Noir, Procedural, Psychological, Science Fiction, Suspense
Most recent publication: Final Term
Type of books: Espionage, Gangster, Historical, Literary criticism, Mystery, Noir, Psychological, Suspense, True Crime
Most recent publication: Shadowside: A Novel
Type of books: Action, Cosy, Espionage, Gangster, Historical, Mystery, Political, Procedural, Science Fiction, Suspense
Most recent publication: #GIRLSONTOUR 1 Part One: The Deadwood Stage
Type of books: Procedural, Supernatural, Suspense
Most recent publication: Guard Her With Your Life
Type of books: Action, Gangster, Humour, Mystery, Suspense
Most recent publication: No More Games
Type of books: Amateur detective, Historical, Suspense
Most recent publication: Sepulchre Street