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Like many major publishers, we publish imaginative, top-quality crime novels - but there the similarity ends.

Unlike most major publishers, our main goals are:

• to encourage and develop new crime writing talent. We set out to introduce new crime writers to the UK market. Our list includes previously unpublished novelists, and established authors who wanted to switch to crime.



• to provide a platform for writers who want to expand the boundaries of the genre. We encourage our authors to experiment. We welcome crime novels with elements of other genres: erotica, horror or historical, for example, or futurecrime.

We're based outside London, so have no high-rent city-centre offices to maintain. We don't pay authors the unrealistic six-figure advances which make the headlines. You won't see huge adverts for our books in glossy magazines and the weekend papers. Instead, our resources provide opportunities for new talent: writers who have flair, imagination and great storytelling skills: authors worth nurturing to help them develop their full potential. We leave the big names to the big publishers, and create our own crime-writing stars - and they shine every bit as brightly as the Rankins, Cornwells and Cobens.

Praise for Crème de la Crime’s 2009 authors::

Roz Southey:

Southey has a real feel for the eighteenth century…
- Booklist (USA)

… points for originality… different, absorbing, and with an unhackneyed setting…
- Alan Fisk, Historical Novels Review

… an elegantly-written and atmospheric mystery
- R S Downie, author of the Ruso historical mystery series

Linda Regan:

I loved it. Don’t miss it.
- Richard Briers CBE

… one of the best up-and coming writers
- Peter Guttridge, the Observer

Regan exhibits enviable control over her characters…
- Colin Dexter OBE

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

Kaye C Hill:

I just love Lexy - and Kinky. I hope I'm going to meet [them] again.
- Jean Currie, The New Writer

Crisp prose and a plot laced with animal tomfoolery will keep readers… eager for a sequel.
- Publishers Weekly (USA)

Into the prevailing noir of contemporary crime fiction Kaye C Hill brings a welcome splash of colour and humour.
- Simon Brett

Mary Andrea Clarke:

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

Clarke captures the flavor 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

Crème de la Crime novels are available from all good bookshops. To find out more about us and the books we publish, please explore the site.

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. Try the easy-click links to help you buy our books effortlessly on-line.

Our SUBMISSIONS page explains how YOU could become a Crème de la Crime author, with comprehensive writers’ guidelines and information on how to submit your novel to us.

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