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Like many major publishers, we publish inventive, top-quality crime novels.

Unlike most major publishers, our main goal is to introduce new crime writers to the UK and US market, and to encourage and develop new crime writing talent. All our authors are unpublished in the crime genre when they come to us.

We nurture our own crime-writing stars: authors with flair, imagination and great storytelling skills, with the potential to capture readers' imagination and become bestsellers up there alongside Rankin, Cornwell, Child and McDermid.

We also want to expand the boundaries of the genre, and encourage our authors to experiment. We welcome crime novels with elements of other genres: historical and futurecrime form a significant part of our list.

Praise for Cr�me de la Crime�s 2009 authors:


Roz Southey:

You can see and smell the city, feel the mystery and tensions, and become drawn into the pursuit... It remains absorbing to the end� a must-read
- Historical Novels Review Editor's Choice

Original, unusual, and grabs your attention from the opening lines. The tension is maintained, the characters are engaging, and the reader is kept guessing right to the end.
- Sarah Rayne, award-winning crime writer

� plot as intricate as a fugue� Southey deserves an encore�
- Publishers Weekly, USA

� a masterpiece of period fiction that delights while it provides an intriguing puzzle that keeps the reader riveted until the end.
- Early Music America

Maureen Carter:

If there was any justice in the world she'd be as famous as Ian Rankin.
- Sharon Wheeler, Reviewing the Evidence

British hard-boiled crime at its best.
- George Easter, Deadly Pleasures (USA)

Maureen Carter and Bev Morris are the Second City's finest!
- Mark Billingham, author of the award-winning Tom Thorne series

Bev Morriss is a strong character inhabiting an energetic and compelling series of stories that would work well on TV. It's only a matter of time, surely.
- Tangled Web

Mary Andrea Clarke:

� ingenious plot line leading to a surprizing ending.
- Angela Youngman, Monsters and Critics

Clarke captures the flavour of the period� Readers will be eager for the next instalment...
- Publishers� Weekly (USA)

� sparkling period crime fiction with a lively touch
- Andrew Taylor, award-winning author of The American Boy

Cr�me de la Crime novels are available from all good bookshops, on the high street and online.

Our BOOKS and BACKLIST pages are the showcase for our growing list of crime titles.

• Read about our latest releases.
• See the cover designs, storylines and author biographies.
• Read about our latest venture: a partnership with Creative Content, an exciting digital publisher, to turn our titles into e-books

If you think YOU could become a Cr�me de la Crime author, check out the comprehensive writers' guidelines and information on how to submit your novel to us on our SUBMISSIONS page.

And if you relish a good murder mystery novel, you'll also enjoy our MURDER MYSTERY EVENINGS. For a library or bookshop event, a fun evening for a reading group (better still, several reading groups jointly), a WI/Townswomen's Guild or other social group, a charity fundraiser, or even a birthday party with a difference, our rates are reasonable and negotiable, and can include complimentary copies of Cr�me de a Crime's sharp, pacy mystery novels for participants.

Click here for full details of upcoming events.

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