Special Guest: George Pelecanos
| Date: |
Saturday 25 July 2009 at 9:00am |
| Tickets: |
£10 |
| Venue: |
Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
'The poet laureate of the crime
world' who brought his too-cool-for-school prose to
HBO's most acclaimed TV show, The Wire.
Don't miss the 'sexiest man in
crime'.
Emerald Noir
| Date: |
Saturday 25 July 2009 at 10:30am |
| Tickets: |
£8 |
| Venue: |
Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Ireland is home to some of the hottest names in crime. Ruth
Dudley Edwards chairs Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes, Gene Kerrigan and
Brian McGilloway.
Men in Crisis
| Date: |
Saturday 25 July 2009 at 12:00noon |
| Tickets: |
£8 |
| Venue: |
Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Hard drinking, adulterating psychotics the male crime hero is
deliciously bleak. N J Cooper keeps Simon Kernick,
Paul Johnston, Allan Guthrie, Gyles Brandreth and Robert Lewis in
line.
Dangerous Dykes
| Date: |
Saturday 25 July 2009 at 2:00pm |
| Tickets: |
£8 |
| Venue: |
Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Leading lesbian crime novelists Stella Duffy, Natasha Cooper,
Val McDermid and Manda Scott debate with chair Mark Lawson the
pros, cons and controversies of their work.
Ranting Writers: Five Go Postal
| Date: |
Saturday 25 July 2009 at 3:30pm |
| Tickets: |
£8 |
| Venue: |
Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
The crime genre is riddle with
cliché: it's murder!
MC Beaton, Christopher Brookmyre, Ann Cleeves, RJ Ellroy and Laura
Wilson get it off their chests with chair, Simon Brett. Sponsored
by Constable & Robinson.
X-Rated: Sex, Drugs and Ultra-Violence
| Date: |
Saturday 25 July 2009 at 5:00pm |
| Tickets: |
£8 |
| Venue: |
Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
And that's just in the hotel bar! Hang on to your
seats with the edgiest writers around: Stuart MacBride
will try to keep Megan Abbott, Denise Mina, Caro
Ramsay and Zoë Sharp in check. Sponsored by
Penguin Books
Come Dine With Me: Murder Mystery Event
| Date: |
Saturday 25 July 2009 at 6:15pm |
| Tickets: |
£26 |
| Venue: |
Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
If you dare. Is the soup laced with arsenic? Dine with the
award winning author Ann Cleeves and solve a dastardly crime over
desert! Delicious! Sponsored by Yorkshire Cancer Research
Special Guest: Lee Child
| Date: |
Saturday 25 July 2009 at 8:30pm |
| Tickets: |
£12 |
| Venue: |
Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Child is one hot ticket: one of the world's biggest thriller
writers, thanks to his maverick hero, Jack Reacher.
Sponsored by Transworld Publishers.
Late Night Quiz
| Date: |
Saturday 25 July 2009 at 10:00pm |
| Tickets: |
£8 |
| Venue: |
Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
A pub quiz with a dark difference, pit your wits against
publishers, fans, agents and authors as Mark Billingham, Stuart
MacBride, Laura Wilson and Val McDermid get cruelly
competitive.
Nursery Crimes
| Date: |
Sunday 26 July 2009 at 10:00am |
| Tickets: |
£8 |
| Venue: |
Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Join Jasper Fforde, Christopher Fowler, Suzette A. Hill and
Yrsa Sigurdardottir with chair Andrew Taylor to discuss their early
influences.
