Ayo Onatade 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇳🇬
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CWA Red Herring award winning freelance crime fiction critic and commentator. I review, write, interview and blog on all things crime fiction related.
United Kingdom
Joined October 2010
👑📚One week tomorrow! On the 19th,the HWA Crown Awards for the best in historical writing, fiction and non-fiction, will be announced. To see the shortlisted books, check the link in replies, below⤵️
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Iceland Noir is almost upon us! Our very own Jón Atli Jónasson is on a Thursday morning panel to talk about his chillingly brilliant Broken – and Toxic, the next in the series, coming next year. https://t.co/ZgctSJOCEv
@graskeggur @solveigpals @oskargudmunds
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Listen to Huw Williams of BBC Radio Orkney interview Lin Anderson about her new Orkney-set thriller THE KILLING TIDE #TheKillingTide CrimeFiction #BloodyScotland
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Looking forward to welcoming @ellygriffiths and @LesleyjmThomson who will be " in conversation" at Ringmer Village Hall on 29th November at 2:30. @steyningbooks will be there too. Tickets still available, do get in touch with ringmervillagelibrary@gmail.com
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So good to see @AyeWrite back to full strength, there are some really great panels lined up - get yourself along if you can https://t.co/7fHgUg8Oav
bbc.com
Crime writer Denise Mina has been a stalwart of Aye Write since it started in 2005, only missing three.
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Would you recognise your own son? - How a crime fiction series began with DRIFTNET https://t.co/syF7W7jzny
#AmWriting #CrimeFiction #BloodyScotland #CSI #Mystery #Thriller #LinAnderson #KU
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‘If you’re a journalist long enough, all human life will pass your way. Some of it is tough, but it’s great raw material if you want to write fiction.’ My piece at @Shotsblog
https://t.co/7athqqvkgx Buy my novel #DyingDays in stores or here
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Two children lost. The wrong one found. The award-winning author of #TheMidnightKing, @TariqAshkanani, returns with #TheHollowBoys. A dark and haunting thriller about lost children in a dying rust-belt town, coming May 2026. https://t.co/fwiWTifltM
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🎆 Set on November 5th or Guy Fawkes Night, 'Murder in the Mews' is one of Agatha Christie's short stories, featured in the collection of the same name. Have you read this story?
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#TorturedWritersPodcast Episode 1 with @willrdean What if the key to great writing isn’t avoiding the pain, but leaning into procrastination and the silence that fuels it? In this debut episode of The Tortured Writers Podcast, @willrdean talks about exactly this. Available friday
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One of the finest series written
A very happy publication day to Sunday Times no 1 bestseller #SimonScarrow for his new Eagles of the Empire novel 'Tyrant of Rome' out today with @headlinepg! Available to buy at all good bookshops or online. To buy a signed copy see the link here: https://t.co/hdwNffggc6
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The Iceland Noir festival kicks off next week, so look out for our very own @solveigpals talking to translator @graskeggur and Crime Syndicate supremo Ævar Örn about Shrouded – and the next Guðgeir and Elsa Guðrún story, out in English next year! https://t.co/x0vYHKGqmN
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A very happy publication day to @cmacwritescrime - his gripping new festive thriller novel THE CHRISTMAS TREE KILLER is out today!🎁
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Tonight! At 6.00pm on November 6, Author Margaret Holbrook will be speaking at Cheadle Library about the Highwaywomen who traveled the roads in and around London.
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THE BLACKFIRE BLADE by James Logan, book 2 in the LAST LEGACY series and sequel to THE SILVERBLOOD PROMISE, is out tomorrow from @arcadia_books! To celebrate, I'm delighted to have an annotated excerpt from James exploring how he's expanded the setting for this second instalment.
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SOME LIES ARE DEADLIER THAN OTHERS... Annie Adams and Great Aunt Frances must team up across the decades to solve two interlocking murders. With her mother's life on the line this time, can Annie find the killer before it's too late? Coming in April from @Kristen_Perrin ☠️
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On the next stop on the #RadicalFund walking tour, @JohFabianWitt takes us to Harlem to meet the two iconic Black activists who reversed the Garland Fund's decision to stop financing Black projects, and in the process created some of the greatest reforms of the 20th century.
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We are delighted to announce that the King has appointed Archna Dawar to be a Circuit Judge. Everyone at SJB congratulates Her Honour Judge Dawar on her well-deserved appointment. https://t.co/s85KratLoJ
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#HellesHound by @OskarCoxJensen is out now in paperback 🐾 This witty murder mystery puts a modern spin on the classic Golden Age whodunnit. A must-read for fans of Tom Hindle, Richard Osman and Janice Hallett. https://t.co/qzTnfMxvSu
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