I am very pleased to tell you that a brand new festival of crime will be launched in July. Murder Most Yorkshire is coming to Harrogate on July 4th. Throughout that weekend, there will be author interviews, author discussion panels, book signings, and lots, lots more.
Events will be taking place at various venues across town. There will be an opportunity for tea and cake, as well as listening to talks about crime, discussions about murder, readings from top-notch mystery novels, and a chance to speak to attending authors.
Anne Wedgwood will also be joining the panel. Anne is the author of The Botanist, The Soloist and The Narcissist.
The fourth and final member of our panel will be writer and Books and Beverages Presenter Sue Williams. Sue will put the rest of us through our paces with her questions as she tries to keep us in order and on point! We will all be at Bilton Library on Friday, July 5th, to discuss cosy crime, our books and answer questions.
I will also be talking to another panel of authors during the Crime Fest. The authors on this second panel write in different genres of crime. I'm really looking forward to meeting them in person and asking them about their work.
psychological and social injustice crime thrillers such as Tormented. Chris Speck, writer of historical crime and gangland thrillers set in Hull and author of The Great Frost, will be a member of the same discussion group. I will also have the pleasure of talking to Liz Mistry, author of two series of gritty police procedurals set in Yorkshire with the first in a new series set in West Lothian being released on May 23rd. The final member of the group is Dawn Treacher. Dawn, a seasoned creator of MG Fantasy and adventure novels, has turned to cosy crime and is now the author of The Seeds of Murder, the first in a series and also to be published on May 23rd.
The panel discussion will take place on Saturday, July 6th at 2.00pm in Harrogate Library. I am so looking forward to chatting to these writers.
The full programme for the whole festival from July 4th to July 7th will be released in the coming weeks. I will continue to let you know gradually about the attendees, interviewees, and hosts across all of my social media.
So please do come along and join us.
... keep watching this space and checking your social media for updates, and check out the Festival webpage Here
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I do wish I could join you but I’m trapped in The New Forest in the wild south this weekend. My sleuth in the 12-book medieval crime series is a Yorkshire woman from the priory at Swyne near Beverley. Many of the books are set up north and the final one (book 12) is on the banks of the Humber during the massive flood of 1397. Authentic or what? See Dark Waters Rising and Murder at Whitby Abbey etc. Good luck this weekend. Wishing you all a great time 🥂👏⭐️
ReplyDeleteThanks very much and it's a great shame you can't make it to the event. But, if everything goes well this year, we might plan another one for next year. Keep watching this space!
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