Please 🙏 🙏 vote for my novel in the Capital Crime Fingerprint Awards. Voting closes tonight. Thank you. ♥️ www.capitalcrime.org/fingerprint-...

📢Join us tomorrow at Granary Square 1pm for a protest Meta following revelations of pirated books being used to train their large language models. More details below 👇

A massive thanks to Helen McGurk at the Newsletter for this weekend feature. #AViolentHeart #BookSky David Fennell: Investigating the writerly motives of popular crime novelist www.newsletter.co.uk/news/people/...

Published this week in paperback A Violent Heart by David Fennell another auto buy Author @davidfennell.bsky.social

This is incredible. Thank you Andy. #Booksky

Thank you @dhhlitagency.bsky.social

Thank you, Ben.

And brown paper packages tied up with string. Thank you @irishnews.com #booksky #AViolentHeart is out today www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

Thank you ☺️ Out today, people! 👇👇 #booksky

The entire paperback collection of DI Grace Archer & DS Harry Quinn are signed & available to buy in store or online from the brilliant @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social Get in quick cause they’re selling fast!

The entire paperback collection of DI Grace Archer & DS Harry Quinn are signed & available to buy in store or online from the brilliant @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social Get in quick cause they’re selling fast!

Tastemaker: Crime writer David Fennell on growing up in Belfast, and his love of TinTin

In today’s @businesspost.bsky.social talking about lots of stuff including Belfast and why TinTin was the boy I wanted to be.

A new episode of Confessions of a Book Collector is available. This week, I talked to @nnedi.bsky.social about her brilliant new novel, Death of the Author and much more. I enjoyed our chat. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

A massive thanks to Manor Farm Library for hosting me at Coffee & Crime to promote the paperback release of #AViolentHeart. A full house of enthusiastic readers listened to Alex from top bookstore @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social expertly grill me about the Archer & Quinn series. Thanks to all who came

Today at 2.30! I’ll be having a coffee and chatting about A Violent Heart with Alex from @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social Come and join us! It’ll be fun. A few tickets remaining discover.hillingdon.gov.uk/david-fennel...

Meanwhile in Dublin’s Kills and Thrills department …

Publishing 27 February. Available to preorder from all the usual places. Tell all your friends! #booksky #AViolentHeart

Publishing 27 February. Available to preorder from all the usual places. Tell all your friends! #booksky #AViolentHeart

Sarah Pinborough’s #WeLiveHereNow is an evocative & wonderfully clever Gothic mystery that chills & delights in equal measure. Without question it has one of the most rewarding conclusions I’ve read in a long time. I'm still smiling. @sarahpinborough.bsky.social at her best. @sameades.bsky.social

AA Dhands’s #TheChemist is a timely unsparing thriller that does not pull its punches. Touted as Breaking Bad meets Dexter, I can see why. In Idris Khan, Dhand has created a flawed hero whose choices I didn’t always agree with but at the same time I wanted him to succeed. Deserves all the success.

#Mystery #London c/o @janetrudolph.bsky.social @cathyace.bsky.social @vickidelany.bsky.social @davidfennell.bsky.social @NarrelleMHarris.mas.to.ap.brid.gy @wendallthomas.bsky.social @misericordius.bsky.social @jeriwesterson.bsky.social @aubreynhamilton.bsky.social @gmmalliet.bsky.social

Loved this book. Serenity Booksellers do top events so this will be cracking.

New Year’s Eve clash of the titans at Ballymastocker Bay, Donegal.

Giant’s Causeway post Christmas walk

Two years on the trot! Thank you to Gordy at @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social for the support and to all the readers who buy my novels in print! Plenty of signed stock in the shop… for now…

Excellent @davidhheadley.bsky.social curry and booze night with @laurasrobinson.bsky.social and @chodhound.bsky.social. Until next time. X

The first reveal of authors confirmed for #BeyondTheBookFestival25. We’re delighted to announce @hallierubenhold.bsky.social @dorothykoomson.bsky.social @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social & @ellygriffiths.bsky.social Tickets available to preorder now at a special Christmas discount. Link in the bio.

My pal, the brilliant author and screenwriter @hattiewilliams.bsky.social has just joined @bsky.app Please give her a follow.

My pal, the brilliant author and screenwriter @hattiewilliams.bsky.social has just joined @bsky.app Please give her a follow.

Impressive 👏👏

Day 12 of Book Advent featuring some of my standout reads of the year @davidfennell.bsky.social #BookAdvent #BookSky

Christmas 🎄 is coming and we’re programming the next Beyond the Book Festival. We already have four incredible authors confirmed and will be revealing them this time tomorrow. Watch this space for more.

Photographing dogs is a shit past time. Merry Christmas from Trafalgar Square and its underwhelming tree. Bah humbug.

Superb marketing here for AA Dhand’s new thriller, #TheChemist. I read the brilliant pilot script for this a while back so really looking forward to getting stuck in.

Congratulations Phil! 👏👏👏

That, and if the book isn't in your library-- request it!!

A few no cost suggestions that will help feed a writer. 👇

We need to up our selfie game.

Thanks so much @karlou72.bsky.social ♥️

A full house last night for our final event of the year - MERRY CRIMEMAS! Martin Griffin, @davidfennell.bsky.social, S L McManus and @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social were here discussing their work and all things Christmassy! A huge thank you to all the authors and, as ever, our wonderful audience! 🎄

In Manchester I was first to the hotel breakfast buffet to make an early train to Euston. The young waiter was garrulous & cheerful for the time of morning. As I was leaving he said: “Just wanted to let you know you’re a much better customer than the London Mayor” Leaving that thought with you all

(I dunno who made this image but I looooooove it)

I have been a bookseller for 25 years, and it has been a joy to read and champion books. My proudest achievement is the @goldsborobooks.bsky.social PREM1ER book club, which will be 20 years old in April 2025. goldsborobooks.com/products/gol...

A massive thanks to Chris & David at @serenitybookshop.bsky.social for hosting me, @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social, Martin Griffin & Sarah McManus at the Merry Crimeas event. Thanks also to everyone who came along. Loved talking to you all. And cheers @chriswillocks.bsky.social for the pics below.

I made a wee starter pack of crime, thriller and spy novelists I follow on here. I'll do one for the SFF side of things too. go.bsky.app/7HX5fXo

Iceland was fab. We travelled the golden circle taking in icy falls & boiling geysers. We spent the day at the Sky Lagoon, ate hearty lamb soup & watched skaters dance on a frozen lake. To top it all we hung out with mates at #IcelandNoir shooting the shit over a drink or two. Not a bad weekend.

Not everyday you see an erupting volcano on the way to the airport. #Iceland for ya.

Gullfoss Falls, Iceland. -6, wind is howling. I’ve never been so freaking cold.

They’ve arrived!