Pascal Garnier – in his own words

Pascal Garnier, who died in March 2010, was a talented novelist, short story writer, children’s author and painter. Gallic Books will publish three novels by him in 2012: The Panda Theory, How’s the Pain? and The A26. In an article for his French publisher, Zulma, Garnier described what led him to become a writer…

What secrets wash up on the tide?

Listen to the podcast for Penny Hancock’s debut novel, Tideline…

SJ Watson on Before I Go To Sleep

Watch an exclusive interview with SJ Watson, Winner of the Galaxy National Book Awards 2011: Crime and Thriller Novel of the Year, for Before I Go To Sleep.

P.D. James in conversation

P. D. James introduces and discusses Death Comes to Pemberley

An extract from Death Comes To Pemberley, by P.D. James

In a pitch-perfect recreation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P. D. James elegantly fuses her lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen with her talent for writing detective fiction….

Eat Him If You Like

Read an extract from Eat Him If You Like, by Jean Teulé, a cannibalistic story based on real events in nineteenth-century France. Published by Gallic Books on November 1st.

A Q&A with Louise Levene

An interview with Louise Levene, author of Ghastly Business, a wickedly witty book of murder and media frenzy in the 1920s.

Stef Penney on The Invisible Ones

Watch the author of The Tenderness of Wolves discuss her latest novel, published recently by Quercus Books.

The Lost Kings – A Code

Bruno Hare tells a tale of his time spent in Pakistan, researching his novel, Lost Kings, a rollicking tale of adventure and derring-do set on the far frontiers of Empire in the best tradition of Kipling and Rider Haggard.

An interview with James Forrester, author of The Roots of Betrayal

Watch an interview with James Forrester, author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England which was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller, and the highly acclaimed Sacred Treason, as he immerses us in his latest Elizabethan crime mystery.

Watch the trailer and read the extract for Roots of Betrayal

The brilliant new Elizabethan thriller from the highly acclaimed author of Sacred Treason…

Win a copy in Bookhugger’s July competition next week!

Tom Rob Smith on The Secret Speech

Tom Rob Smith’s follow-up to wildly successsful debut novel Child 44 is republished this month.

Watch out for a competition to win amazing signed, limited edition numbered bound copies of his latest novel, Agent 6, next week on our sister website, Bookdagger!

The Greek Detective – Stepping over the Boundaries

Anne Zouroudi introduces Hermes Diaktoros, the protagonist from her Mysteries of the Greek Detective series, the fourth of which, The Lady of Sorrows, is published via Bloomsbury today.

Watch out for June’s Bookdagger competition to win four titles from the recently reissued series!

Geraint Anderson Q&A

Cityboy is back! Mike Stafford of Bookhugger interviews the bestselling author of Cityboy, which sold over 200,000 copies, returns with an explosive, edge-of-the-seat, no-holds-barred thriller of City corruption, scams and monstrously bad behaviour.

Discover Just Business, by Geraint Anderson

Cityboy is back! Geraint Anderson, the bestselling author of Cityboy, which sold over 200,000 copies, returns with an explosive, edge-of-the-seat, no-holds-barred thriller of City corruption, scams and monstrously bad behaviour.

Andrew Martin on The Somme Stations

Andrew Martin is the author of the Jim Stringer series, detective novels set during Edwardian times that began with The Necropolis Railway in 2002. The seventh and latest instalment is The Somme Stations…

Armand Cabasson interviewed by Scott Pack

Armand Cabasson is a prize-winning author and psychiatrist who lives in the north of France. He is a member of the French Napoleonic Society and has used his extensive research to create The Napoleonic Murders series. Featuring Quentin Margont, these novels create a vivid portrait of the Napoleonic campaigns.

Win copies of Sacred Treason, by James Forrester [closed]

Win one of five copies of this gripping historical thriller full of compelling detail and narrative twists that received blanket rave reviews in hardcover, out in paperback this month, courtesy of Headline.

Read an extract from Sacred Treason, by James Forrester

Download the extract from this gripping historical thriller full of compelling detail and narrative twists in the vein of C. J. Sansom, that received blanket rave reviews in hardcover, out in paperback this month. Watch for a competition to win copies of Sacred Treason on Bookhugger next week!

Douglas Starr on Killer of Little Shepherds

Douglas Starr, author of The Killer of Little Shepherds, discusses how real life crime-fighters managed to solve crimes before modern technology.

Read a second extract from Where Would I Be Without You? by Guillaume Musso

Sometimes, a second chance can come out of nowhere… we proudly present a second extract from from Guillaume Musso’s bestselling novel Where Would I be Without You? Published in the UK in April by Gallic Books.

Genre round-up: crime fiction

A selection of the best in new crime fiction from the Bookhugger publishers…