We are a professional group of crime authors who, each year, stage the prestigious Dagger Awards for the best crime writing of the year. On this website we do our best to tell you more about us and about what we do. This includes a list of members' latest books, updated monthly, and an annual competition, the Debut Dagger, for the opening chapter of a new novel by a hitherto unpublished author.

The CWA has more than 450 members, all of us writers of fiction and non-fiction, and mostly in the UK, where we are based. The Association was formed over fifty years ago as a body committed to the support of professional writers. Our criterion of membership is that an author must have had at least one book published by a bona fide publisher.

Devoted to Keeler (1890-1967), practitioner of the bizarre "webwork" style of mystery writing. Includes a biography, dustjackets, back issues of the society's newsletter, a society store, and more.

The Unusual Suspects are a group of British-based crime novelists with an international following. They are Natasha Cooper, Manda Scott, Michelle Spring, Andrew Taylor and Laura Wilson. They tour widely to promote their work and entertain their readers and can be booked for panels, workshops, speeches, etc., either as a group or individually.