Just announced by the Mystery Readers International, the winners of the Macavity awards for 2020/21 and in the Best Mystery Critical/Biography category this has gone to Sheila Mitchell for HRF Keating: A Life of Crime published by Level Best Books…

The biography, 'HRF Keating: A Life of Crime' by Sheila Mitchell has been shortlisted in two upcoming crime writing conventions.   The first is for the HRF Keating award by Crime Fest the Bristol crime writing convention (12/15 May). The…

Crime and Detective Stories Issue: 83 Here is Sheila's full article in PDF format.  

Review in Strand Magazine, October 2020 HRF KEATING: A LIFE OF CRIME, SHEILA MITCHELL, LEVEL BEST BOOKS, $15.95 HRF (Harry) Keating is possibly Britain’s most acclaimed crime novelist. During his prolific career, he wrote over thirty crime novels, including twenty-one…

THE PLEASURE OF REREADING, BY SHEILA MITCHELL H.R.F. Keating was one of the great pillars of British crime writing in the twentieth century; he was a crime fiction critic for decades, President of the Detection Club, Chairman of the CWA,…

Sheila Mitchell: Reflections on Writing a Biography I embarked on writing a biography of my husband HRF (Harry) Keating when the first Christmas came round after he had died. I had decided to stay at home on my own rather…

This month Red Herrings, which is the magazine of the Crime Writer’s Association, features an article written recently by Harry's wife Sheila. Here is the transcript: The Perils of Death This is a story with the potential for a happy…

Two excellent reviews - January 2020 Crime Time - The classic Inspector Ghote mysteries – now in digital   Shots - The Return of Inspector Ghote  

We are please to announce that Mysterious Press, an American publishing house based in New York, now have world eBook rights to all seven of the Harriet Martens series. AVAILABLE ON ALL PLATFORMS  

After all these years we are delighted to announce that American publisher 'Level Best' are planning to release Harry's biography. As soon as more details have been confirmed we will let you know...