Jamie Bernthal-Hooker
@jcbernthal.com
Agatha Christie, queer theory, and offshore wind in one strange mix. I write crime fiction and books about crime fiction. Think of an awkward, once-high-achieving millennial Brit. Hello!
Next month, the Seagull Amateurs, my local theatre company, is staging a play I wrote! Seeing the cast in character is really special.
October 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Next month, the Seagull Amateurs, my local theatre company, is staging a play I wrote! Seeing the cast in character is really special.
From Little Miss Marple to The Last Death of the Year, read all about this month's Agatha Christie news. The #ChristieCatchUp for October is live! open.substack.com/pub/christie...
The Christie Catch-Up: October/November 2025
A monthly newsletter keeping you up to date on all things Agatha Christie
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October 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From Little Miss Marple to The Last Death of the Year, read all about this month's Agatha Christie news. The #ChristieCatchUp for October is live! open.substack.com/pub/christie...
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We welcome contributions for upcoming issues:
16.1: Open Themed (Deadline: 1 Jan 2026)
16.2: Crime (Deadline: 1 July 2026)
17.1: The State of Publishing (Deadline: 1 Jan 2027)
17.2: The Value of the Humanities (Deadline: 1 July 2027)
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@tomue.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com
16.1: Open Themed (Deadline: 1 Jan 2026)
16.2: Crime (Deadline: 1 July 2026)
17.1: The State of Publishing (Deadline: 1 Jan 2027)
17.2: The Value of the Humanities (Deadline: 1 July 2027)
ow.ly/8rOn50WVFBg
@tomue.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We welcome contributions for upcoming issues:
16.1: Open Themed (Deadline: 1 Jan 2026)
16.2: Crime (Deadline: 1 July 2026)
17.1: The State of Publishing (Deadline: 1 Jan 2027)
17.2: The Value of the Humanities (Deadline: 1 July 2027)
ow.ly/8rOn50WVFBg
@tomue.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com
16.1: Open Themed (Deadline: 1 Jan 2026)
16.2: Crime (Deadline: 1 July 2026)
17.1: The State of Publishing (Deadline: 1 Jan 2027)
17.2: The Value of the Humanities (Deadline: 1 July 2027)
ow.ly/8rOn50WVFBg
@tomue.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com
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We are extremely lucky to kick off day two with our amazing keynote! The amazing @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social discussing Golden Age Detective Fiction as War Fiction. 🕵🏻♀️🔪✨
#GoldenAgeDetectiveFiction
@stefanoserafini.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social @carolinederry.bsky.social
#GoldenAgeDetectiveFiction
@stefanoserafini.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social @carolinederry.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We are extremely lucky to kick off day two with our amazing keynote! The amazing @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social discussing Golden Age Detective Fiction as War Fiction. 🕵🏻♀️🔪✨
#GoldenAgeDetectiveFiction
@stefanoserafini.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social @carolinederry.bsky.social
#GoldenAgeDetectiveFiction
@stefanoserafini.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social @carolinederry.bsky.social
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DAY ONE 🕵🏻♀️🔪🧶 is underway! ✨
We are so excited for some amazing papers this morning. Are you joing us? What panel are you excited for?!
🕵🏿♀️🔪🧶
@fsucci.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @michellekazmer.bsky.social @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social
We are so excited for some amazing papers this morning. Are you joing us? What panel are you excited for?!
🕵🏿♀️🔪🧶
@fsucci.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @michellekazmer.bsky.social @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
DAY ONE 🕵🏻♀️🔪🧶 is underway! ✨
We are so excited for some amazing papers this morning. Are you joing us? What panel are you excited for?!
🕵🏿♀️🔪🧶
@fsucci.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @michellekazmer.bsky.social @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social
We are so excited for some amazing papers this morning. Are you joing us? What panel are you excited for?!
🕵🏿♀️🔪🧶
@fsucci.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @michellekazmer.bsky.social @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social
I’m so excited that, in 2 days, we are launching both Silent Echoes, a golden age crime conference and Ten Little Mysteries, a book of new fiction inspired by the Golden Age. Get a sneak preview of the introduction here: jcbernthal.com/2025/09/07/c...
September 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I’m so excited that, in 2 days, we are launching both Silent Echoes, a golden age crime conference and Ten Little Mysteries, a book of new fiction inspired by the Golden Age. Get a sneak preview of the introduction here: jcbernthal.com/2025/09/07/c...
Extremely excited to see this come together. It’s a great and timely issue!
First proofs are here for Book 2.0 @intellectbooks.bsky.social! Congrats to my partner @jcbernthal.com & our team!
September 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Extremely excited to see this come together. It’s a great and timely issue!
The Christie Catch-Up: August/September 2025 open.substack.com/pub/christie...
The Christie Catch-Up: August/September 2025
A monthly newsletter keeping you up to date on all things Agatha Christie
open.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The Christie Catch-Up: August/September 2025 open.substack.com/pub/christie...
Out today from Crippen & Landru: Double Crossing Van Dine! I'm honoured to have a story in this collection, where each author breaks one of S.S. Van Dine's sacred rules of detective fiction writing.
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Double Crossing Van Dine
DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! As the Golden Age of Mystery began to flourish, the books spread their wings and, in some cases, stretched believability. These authors sometimes shocked the readers, but a...
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August 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Out today from Crippen & Landru: Double Crossing Van Dine! I'm honoured to have a story in this collection, where each author breaks one of S.S. Van Dine's sacred rules of detective fiction writing.
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Just launched a Substack! The Christie Catch-Up tells you what you might have missed from the world of Agatha Christie each month. I am still finding my feet so please let me know what you think! christiecatchup.substack.com
The Christie Catch-Up | J.C. Bernthal | Substack
A monthly newsletter keeping you up to date on all things Agatha Christie. Click to read The Christie Catch-Up, by J.C. Bernthal, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.
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July 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Just launched a Substack! The Christie Catch-Up tells you what you might have missed from the world of Agatha Christie each month. I am still finding my feet so please let me know what you think! christiecatchup.substack.com
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🗡#CWADaggers
And the Short Story Dagger 2024 WINNER is…
JC BERNTHAL, for ‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’
Published in Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards
(Flame Tree Press)
And the Short Story Dagger 2024 WINNER is…
JC BERNTHAL, for ‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’
Published in Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards
(Flame Tree Press)
July 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🗡#CWADaggers
And the Short Story Dagger 2024 WINNER is…
JC BERNTHAL, for ‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’
Published in Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards
(Flame Tree Press)
And the Short Story Dagger 2024 WINNER is…
JC BERNTHAL, for ‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’
Published in Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards
(Flame Tree Press)
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This is fabulous news and very well deserved for Festival Friend, the amazing Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker. Well done Jamie!
I can't quite believe this, but my first mainstream fiction publication, 'A Date on Yarmouth Pier', has been shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger!!!!!!
Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Short Story Dagger!
June 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This is fabulous news and very well deserved for Festival Friend, the amazing Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker. Well done Jamie!
I can't quite believe this, but my first mainstream fiction publication, 'A Date on Yarmouth Pier', has been shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger!!!!!!
Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Short Story Dagger!
June 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I can't quite believe this, but my first mainstream fiction publication, 'A Date on Yarmouth Pier', has been shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger!!!!!!
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Issue 15.1 of Book 2.0 is in @intellectbooks.bsky.social! Thx, to my BFF @jcbernthal.com & to our fab contributors, for a great issue! Here's to the next 50.
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ALT: a book is open to a page that says ' i 'm sorry '
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May 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Issue 15.1 of Book 2.0 is in @intellectbooks.bsky.social! Thx, to my BFF @jcbernthal.com & to our fab contributors, for a great issue! Here's to the next 50.
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To commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, as part of our September Festival, we will have a glamorous VE Day themed ball in the Grand, and talks from @jcbernthal.com and experts from @isokongallery.bsky.social on Agatha Christie's life and work during the war
www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...
www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...
International Agatha Christie Festival | Literary Festival
Celebrate Agatha Christie in the place of her birth on the English Riviera. Step into the area’s outstanding literary and geological heritage with a six-day fringe followed by a four-day literary fest...
www.iacf-uk.org
May 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, as part of our September Festival, we will have a glamorous VE Day themed ball in the Grand, and talks from @jcbernthal.com and experts from @isokongallery.bsky.social on Agatha Christie's life and work during the war
www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...
www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...
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A few days left to send in your abstracts! See you there?! 🕵🏻♀️🔍✨
@jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @thecwa.bsky.social @crimestudies.bsky.social
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @middlebrownetwork.bsky.social
#CrimeFiction @agathafestival.bsky.social
@jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @thecwa.bsky.social @crimestudies.bsky.social
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @middlebrownetwork.bsky.social
#CrimeFiction @agathafestival.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A few days left to send in your abstracts! See you there?! 🕵🏻♀️🔍✨
@jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @thecwa.bsky.social @crimestudies.bsky.social
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @middlebrownetwork.bsky.social
#CrimeFiction @agathafestival.bsky.social
@jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @thecwa.bsky.social @crimestudies.bsky.social
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @middlebrownetwork.bsky.social
#CrimeFiction @agathafestival.bsky.social
After launching the very exciting no-longer-secret project, I’m at the theatre. It is funny.
April 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
After launching the very exciting no-longer-secret project, I’m at the theatre. It is funny.
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What a fabulous concept!
Congratulations to @markaldridge.info @jcbernthal.com @michellekazmer.bsky.social and Gray Robert Brown.
All 4 of these brilliant Agathaologists are speaking at this year's Festival in September. We can't wait!
#agathachristie
Congratulations to @markaldridge.info @jcbernthal.com @michellekazmer.bsky.social and Gray Robert Brown.
All 4 of these brilliant Agathaologists are speaking at this year's Festival in September. We can't wait!
#agathachristie
Here we go - two years in the making! #AgathaChristie youtu.be/26Tn5OjMcAM?...
How The Agatha Christie Course Was Made | BBC Maestro
YouTube video by BBC Maestro
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April 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What a fabulous concept!
Congratulations to @markaldridge.info @jcbernthal.com @michellekazmer.bsky.social and Gray Robert Brown.
All 4 of these brilliant Agathaologists are speaking at this year's Festival in September. We can't wait!
#agathachristie
Congratulations to @markaldridge.info @jcbernthal.com @michellekazmer.bsky.social and Gray Robert Brown.
All 4 of these brilliant Agathaologists are speaking at this year's Festival in September. We can't wait!
#agathachristie
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🔍✨EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT✨🔍
We are thrilled to announce our 2025 keynote for Golden Age of Crime, @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social ! @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Read more about Prof. Meyer and her fascinating research below👇🏻
✨Submissions open until 5th May✨
We are thrilled to announce our 2025 keynote for Golden Age of Crime, @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social ! @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Read more about Prof. Meyer and her fascinating research below👇🏻
✨Submissions open until 5th May✨
April 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🔍✨EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT✨🔍
We are thrilled to announce our 2025 keynote for Golden Age of Crime, @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social ! @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Read more about Prof. Meyer and her fascinating research below👇🏻
✨Submissions open until 5th May✨
We are thrilled to announce our 2025 keynote for Golden Age of Crime, @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social ! @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Read more about Prof. Meyer and her fascinating research below👇🏻
✨Submissions open until 5th May✨
❗We are excited to announce our keynote speaker for 'Silent Echoes: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Trauma', at FSU's London Study Centre in September. Professor Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social is an expert on masculinity, war, and popular culture whose work we LOVE. We cannot wait.
April 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
❗We are excited to announce our keynote speaker for 'Silent Echoes: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Trauma', at FSU's London Study Centre in September. Professor Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social is an expert on masculinity, war, and popular culture whose work we LOVE. We cannot wait.
This is the most delightful surprise. My short story, ‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’ (which is sort of about a serial killer and is a bit gay) has been long listed for the CWA Short Story dagger. And what an illustrious list it is, too. ❤️
Announcing the longlist for the 2025 CWA Short Story Dagger! Congratulations, authors and good luck in the next round! #CWA_Daggers #Daggers_2025 #booksky
April 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is the most delightful surprise. My short story, ‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’ (which is sort of about a serial killer and is a bit gay) has been long listed for the CWA Short Story dagger. And what an illustrious list it is, too. ❤️
So sorry to hear this news. One of the last of his school of crime writers, consistently brilliant, and just a very nice and supportive person. RIP Peter Lovesey.
I am heartbroken to hear of the passing of Peter Lovesey. He was among the very finest mystery authors, and a gentleman of unparalleled generosity. One of my most prized possessions is a personalised copy of ABRACADAVER he sent me two years ago when DEATH AND THE CONJUROR came out in the UK.
April 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
So sorry to hear this news. One of the last of his school of crime writers, consistently brilliant, and just a very nice and supportive person. RIP Peter Lovesey.
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@jcbernthal.com & I are beavering away at 15.1 of Book 2.0 @intellectbooks.bsky.social, which features reviews of new titles from Oxford UP, @yalepress.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social, Gordon Hill P, & numerous others! Warm thx to our contributors!
April 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
@jcbernthal.com & I are beavering away at 15.1 of Book 2.0 @intellectbooks.bsky.social, which features reviews of new titles from Oxford UP, @yalepress.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social, Gordon Hill P, & numerous others! Warm thx to our contributors!
You can now get Jessica Brick Investigates as an ebook! Like the physical book, it contains the first 5 comic mystery stories featuring my amateur sleuth Jessica Brick (she models herself on Miss Marple, but isn't very good). www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F3V75GV3/
April 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
You can now get Jessica Brick Investigates as an ebook! Like the physical book, it contains the first 5 comic mystery stories featuring my amateur sleuth Jessica Brick (she models herself on Miss Marple, but isn't very good). www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F3V75GV3/
Looks like another great line up for this year’s @agathafestival.bsky.social! I’m looking forward to my talk, SECRETS AND SPIES: AGATHA CHRISTIE THE WAR WRITER. 😎 www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...
International Agatha Christie Festival | Literary Festival
Celebrate Agatha Christie in the place of her birth on the English Riviera. Step into the area’s outstanding literary and geological heritage with a six-day fringe followed by a four-day literary fest...
www.iacf-uk.org
March 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Looks like another great line up for this year’s @agathafestival.bsky.social! I’m looking forward to my talk, SECRETS AND SPIES: AGATHA CHRISTIE THE WAR WRITER. 😎 www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...