Ten Year Stretch

How Many Cats Have You Killed? by Mick Herron and Strangers in a Pub by Martin Edwards from Ten Year Stretch are longlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger

Twenty superb new crime stories have been commissioned specially to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Crimefest, described by The Guardian as ‘one of the fifty best festivals in the world’.

A star-studded international group of authors has come together in crime writing harmony to provide a killer cocktail for noir fans; salutary tales of gangster etiquette and pitfalls, clever takes on the locked-room genre, chilling wrong-footers from the deceptively peaceful suburbs, intriguing accounts of tables being turned on hapless private eyes, delicious slices of jet black nordic noir, culminating in a stunning example of bleak amorality from crime writing doyenne Maj Sjowall.

The foreword is by international bestselling thriller writer Peter James. The editors are Martin Edwards, responsible for many award-winning anthologies, and Adrian Muller, CrimeFest co-founder.

All Royalties are donated to the RNIB Talking Books Library.

• Includes stories from bestselling writers Lee Child, Ann Cleeves, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Hannah, Mick Herron and Ian Rankin, as well as the 2016 CWA Double Dagger winner Bill Beverly
• Foreword by international best selling thriller writer Peter James
• The proceeds from this anthology will benefit the library of the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
• Many of the contributors will be attending the launch of the publication at the 10th anniversary of CrimeFest, 17-20 May 2018.