Lots of other great reads highlighted at @wimblestones too, including Kiwi Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton's latest, a slow-burn thriller that's Ockham NZ Book Awards-shortlisted and #2024Ngaios entry, and really terrific crime reads from Femi Kayode, William Hussey JERICHO’S DEAD out now! and others.

Kiwi authors of colour, check out this fab podcast, resource, and network. While Crime Writers of Color began in US, hence the aversion to 'u' in spelling, it's a global group that can help authors everywhere. Join likes of CWA chair Vaseem Khan & Ngaios winner Michael Bennett, novelist & filmmaker as members!

Stephen King superfan Elizabeth Knox on the radio last night rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Applications are closing soon for Te Papa Tupu – a unique six-month writing programme designed to develop Māori writers and open doors into the world of book publishing.

⚡️Submit your manuscript by 30 April 2024⚡️

Find out more: mlt.org.nz/te-papa-tupu/

Kiwis can fly! #yeahnoir highlighted in London.
Foundation for Australia & New Zealand Arts (UK) NZ Society of Authors

Kia ora to everyone who came out for 'Deadly in Dunedin' last week. We always love visiting DN Public Libraries as part of our nationwide Mystery in the Library series. This year it was a fabulous quartet of Liam McIlvanney, Paul Knowles, Kura Carpenter & Vanda Symon #yeahnoir

Where our author chats to @StephenJewell of Canvas Magazine about how editing an anthology is kinda like selecting a sports team, growing NZ fruit in London, remembering Renée, and lots about our fab Kiwi/Aussie crime writers... via nzherald nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/… Clan Destine Press

Here are those details! 'Hutt Valley Hijinks - Mystery in the Library' with Helen Vivienne Fletcher Tim Jones @katemahony7 and Caroline Swindell. #ClimateCrime , and other crime too!

WHEN: Weds 1 May
WHERE: War Memorial Library, 2 Queens Drive, Lower Hutt
WHAT TIME: 6.15 for 6.30pm

Book 29 of 2024.
#HisFavouriteGraves Paul Cleave
The darkest, twistiest thriller I've read this year do far. Deeply disturbing yet brilliantly entertaining, you won't be able to look away. Superb. And insane. All the things 😂❤️📚
Out now via Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦

Fabulous book, fabulous series. Crime and corruption in Renaissance Florence from #yeahnoir author Pre-order #ADivineFury by D V Bishop now (a Kiwi in Scotland). Marvellous.

A superb crazy ride through “Playa del something-or-other”, Mexico to Cali, Colombia – with Lou Galloway, disappointed actor, playing the role of his life: El Flamingo by Nick Davies. My review: tinyurl.com/4muvbabs #YeahNoir #ReadNZ

Cool! His Favourite Graves is on sale on Kobo for 99p in the UK -for a very brief time :-)

Applications for this dreamy residency/exchange close on 8 April!

✨Join criminal psychologist Nellie Prayle and Detective Jack Simmons as they navigate murder and intrigue in this thriller set in New Zealand's Mackenzie Country. 🌙

nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/dark-sky-… #nzbooklovers

Having quit the Met Police in search of a quieter life, Jodie 'Nosey' Parker is back in the Cornish village she calls home, starting a catering company and raising her daughter. When the bride vanishes at an ex-boyfriend's wedding, Jodie finds herself drawn into the investigation

Bobby Ress is a cop with a simple life. He loves his family and he believes in making a difference. As bodies pile up in a gruesome case unlike any other, Bobby comes to a realisation: If you hurt someone badly enough, then there's absolutely nothing you can't make them do...

Shout out to the Between the Lines literary festival in Central Hawkes Bay, starting in a few days! This is a great festival with a brilliant line up this year: betweenthelines.nz Charity Norman Catherine Chidgey Michael Bennett, novelist & filmmaker

An offspring of SCC, the groundbreaking #DarkDeedsDownUnder anthologies have been praised by Val McDermid, Ann Cleeves, Michael Robotham and others. Volume 2 out soon, 20% off pre-orders right now: clandestinepress.net/products/dark-… SistersinCrime Aust Australian Crime Writers Association Ngaio Marsh Awards

It was Deadly in Dunedin last night, with the fabulous Vanda Symon, Liam McIlvanney, Paul Knowles & Kura Carpenter. 🔪😱🩸

Thanks DN Public Libraries & Ngaio Marsh Awards!

City of Literature
#DunnerStunner
#yeahnoir
#mysteryinthelibrary

A brilliant Deadly in Dunedin panel at DN Public Libraries this evening with Vanda Symon, Kura Carpenter, Liam McIlvanney and #PaulKnowles 🩸🔫🔪📚