An evening of with five best-selling crime writers. 

SAM CARRINGTON • ELLY GRIFFITHS • WILLIAM SHAW • LESLEY THOMSON • SUSAN WILKINS

Talk, Q+A and book signings. 

Val McDermid calls Elly Griffiths' much-loved Dr Ruth Galloway books 'my favourite current series'. The latest, The Lantern Men, just went straight into The Sunday Times charts at #2. Her recent standalone The Stranger Diaries was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick. 

Ian Rankin has described Lesley Thomson’s fiction as ‘a class above’. Lesley’s novel The Detective's Daughter sold over 750,000 copies and launched her hugely praised Stella Darnell series. Death of a Mermaid, her standalone mystery set in a British fishing port, features a detective who is a mobile fishmonger.

I Dare You is USA Today best-selling author Sam Carrington's fifth nail-biting psychological thriller. Top thriller writer John Marrs loved it, saying: 'I was knocked senseless by the awesome twist'.

Before turning to crime Susan Wilkins was a scriptwriter for Casualty, Heartbeat, Coronation Street and Eastenders. The Sunday Mirror calls her 'blazingly brilliant'. Damage Done is the start of a thrilling new detective series set in Devon.

Grave's End is the third in William Shaw's DI Alex Cupidi series, set in Dungeness, Kent. Peter James praises him as 'one of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction.'