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A few things I've discovered recently:

Sony is to sponsor the e-book category prize at next year’s Crimefest.

Tom Harper aka Edwin Thomas will take over the CWA chair in April from Margaret Murphy.

There's a five minute video interview with William Brodrick author of the 2009 Gold Dagger winning, A Whispered Name, on the Whole Story Audio Books website.

The latest edition of Radio 7's Foul Play which is available to listen again/iplayer is The Adventure of the Murdered Heiress - "Crime writers PD James and HRF Keating try to solve the deadly case of a jewel theft. Written and chaired by Simon Brett".

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A few things I've discovered recently:

A new blog - Murder is Everywhere - "Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Leighton Gage, Michael Stanley, Cara Black and Dan Waddell blog each week on different days from our different corners of the globe".

Campbell Read Books: the only approved online outlet for signed copies of Quintin Jardine's best-selling Bob Skinner and Primavera Blackstone Novels.

Le Serpent will be on Film Four on 10th December at 23.05:
Yvan Attal plays a photographer who becomes the target of a deranged ex-classmate (Clovis Cornillac) who is obsessed with avenging a childhood slight.



This ITV press release reveals more about the plot of VERA which is based on Ann Cleeves's Hidden Depths and stars Brenda Blethyn and David Leon. It will be shown on ITV1 in 2010.

and finally, many thanks to Canongate who've named Euro Crime as their The Gatekeeper's Site of the Week.

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One or two things I've discovered this week:

July 2010 is looking good for fans of Scandinavian crime fiction with new series entries from Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Karin Fossum plus a debut novel from Camilla Ceder. More 2010 Scandinavian crime fiction can be found on my amazon list.

Richard Armitage is filming Chris Ryan's Strike Back. The six part series is due to be broadcast in spring 2010 on Sky.


David Morrissey is to play Mark Billingham's Tom Thorne. Mark reports on Facebook that "the TV series is in production and will probably be on screen in late Autumn next year..."

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A few things I've learnt recently:

Bernard Knight is writing a second series along with his 12th Century Crowner John series. The first book is called Where Death Delights and is set in 1955. It'll be published by Severn House next February.

Nigel McCrery's Still Waters has just been published in paperback under the title Core of Evil.

Michael Morley is now also writing as Jon Trace and his first book under this name is The Venice Conspiracy out in February.

There's a special Taggart v Rebus confrontation on Children in Need next Friday.

The current podcast for Simon Mayo's Book Review show features Black Water Rising by Attica Locke and Judgement and Wrath by Matt Hilton.

On Radio 4's Open Book programme on Sunday 15 November at 4pm, Mariella Frostrup talks to Frances Fyfield.