The KillerFest15 Crime Fiction line-up
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AGATHA CHRISTIE – Exclusive cover reveal on Kill Reads Facebook
ALAN JUDD – Live event at Waterstones in conversation with Charles Cumming, book free, contact @waterstonespicc | Latest book: Inside Enemy
ALEX BARCLAY – Podcast on Why Harrogate Crime Festival is so special? | Podcast on Writer’s envy: Daphne du Maurier | Q&A | blog: Doing nothing… | blog: Pole Dancer | Latest book: Killing Ways
ALEX CAVENDISH – Discusses prison reform with Jonathan Robinson on Killer Reads twitter feed
ALEXANDRA BURT – Q&A | blog: A certain kind of story | Look out for: Little Girl Gone
ANDREW TAYLOR – In discussion with Barry Forshaw on Killer Reads twitter feed | Podcast on Writer’s envy: Enid Blyton | Latest book: The Silent Boy
ANN CLEEVES – Live chat on Waterstones twitter feed | Latest Book: Thin Air
ANYA LIPSKA – Q&A | discusses London-based crime fiction with James Craig on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: Death can’t take a joke
AVA MCCARTHY – Live chat about Irish Crime Fiction with Louise Phillips, Sheena Lambert and William Ryan on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: Hide Me
BARRY FORSHAW – In discussion with Andrew Taylor and Jake Kerridge on Killer Reads twitter feed
BEN MCPHERSON – Talks to a psychologist on Killer Reads twitter feed | Q&A | blog: ‘I need a corpse…’ | Latest book: A Line of Blood
BONNIE MACBRID – Q&A | Live chat about Arthur Conan Doyle on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: Art in the Blood
BRUCE HOLSINGER – Q&A | Discusses historical crime fiction with Chris Nickson and Lynn Shepherd on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: The Invention of Fire
CATH STAINCLIFFE – Live event at Waterstones Liverpool Friday 13th at 6.30om, free contact @waterstonesl1 | Latest book: Dead to Me
CAMILLA LACKBERG – Podcast on Swedish Crime | Latest book: The Scent of Almonds & other stories
CHARLES ARDAI – Hard Case Crime editor discusses the golden age of crime paperbacks on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: Fifty-to-one
CHARLES CUMMING – Live at Waterstones Piccadilly book free, contact @waterstonespicc | Podcast interview about The Trinity Six | Podcast interview about A Foreign Country | Podcast on Writer’s envy: Arthur Miller | Latest book: A Colder War
CHARLES TODD – blog: Writing about Britain | Latest book: A Fine Summers Day
CHRIS CURRAN – Q&A | blog: The sea, the sea | Latest book: Mindsight
CHRIS NICKSON – Discusses historical crime fiction with Bruce Holsinger and Lynn Shepherd on Killer Reads facebook | Q&A | Latest book: Dark Briggate Blues
CL TAYLOR – Talks about new voices in psychological crime on Killer Reads facebook
CLAIRE KENDAL – Discusses getting published on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: The Book of You
CLARE MACKINTOSH – Discusses psychological thrillers with twists on Killer Reads twitter feed | Latest book: I Let You Go
DAVID BRAWN – What it’s like to be Agatha Christie’s publisher on Killer Reads facebook
DAVID HEWSON – Discusses The Killing Books on Waterstones twitter feed
DAVID MARK – Former crime reporter discusses crime fact vs. crime fiction on Killer Reads facebook
DOM HASTINGS – Profile of Bloody Scotland festival | Discusses Tartan Noir on Killer Reads facebook
EMMA KAVANAGH – Q&A | Live chat with police psychologist on Killer Reads twitter feed | Latest book: Hidden
ERIN KELLY – Live chat about the books following Broadchurch on Killer Reads twitter feed | Latest book: The Ties that Bind
FERGUS MCNEILL – Q&A | Discusses favourite criminals and detectives in crime fiction on Killer Reads twitter feed | Latest book: Cut-Out
GREG ILES – Backlist book giveaway | Latest book: The Bone Tree
HELEN FORBES – Live event at Waterstones Inverness, Saturday 14th March at 2.30, free contact @watInverness | Latest book: In the Shadow of the Hill
HENRY SUTTON – Professor in crime fiction live chat on Killer Reads twitter feed | Latest book: My Criminal World
IAN RANKIN – Live chat on Waterstones twitter feed | Latest book: The Beat Goes On
IAN SANSOM – Q&A | blog: A Writer’s Natural Habitat | Latest book: A Death in Devon
ISABELLE GREY – Q&A | In conversation with SARAH HILARY Killer Reads twitter feed | Latest book: Good girls don’t die
JACKIE MALTON – Discusses the job that inspired Prime Suspect on Killer Reads twitter feed
JAKE KERRIDGE – Answers questions about being a crime critic with Barry Forshaw on Killer Reads twitter feed
JAMES CRAIG – Q&A | discusses London-based crime fiction with Anya Lipska on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: Sins of the Fathers
JAMES SMYTHE – Podcast on Harrogate Crime Festival | Podcast on Writer’s envy: Dave Eggers | Latest book: The Echo
JANE CASEY – Q&A | Look out for: After the Fire
JAX MILLER – Q&A | blog: The Road to Freedom | Latest book: Freedom’s Child
JILLIANE HOFFMAN – Q&A | Podcast interview about The Cutting Room | Latest book: All the Little Pieces
JJ DURHAM – Q&A | blog: From screen to page: The Metamorphosis of Murder. Latest book: An Act of Mercy
JONATHAN ROBINSON – Discusses prison reform with Alex Cavendish on Killer Reads twitter feed
JONNY GELLER – Twitter chat with SJ Parris on Killer Reads twitter feed
JS LAW – Q&A | Latest book: Tenacity
JULIE SHAW – Debates the penal system on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: My Uncle Charlie
KAREN ROSE – Google hangout on Killer Reads | Latest book: Closer Than You Think
KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS – Live event in Waterstones Romford, Saturday 14th March at 12.30pm, free contact @wstonesromford | Podcast interview about Payback | Latest book: Payback
LARS KEPLER – Q&A | Latest book: The Sandman
LAUREN BEUKES – Podcast interview about Broken Monsters | Podcast on Writer’s envy: David Mitchell | Latest book: Broken Monsters
LIN ANDERSON – Live event at Waterstones Inverness, Saturday 14th March at 2.30, free contact @watInverness | Latest Book: Paths of the Dead
LOUISE PHILLIPS – Live chat about Irish Crime Fiction with Ava McCarthy, Sheena Lambert and William Ryan on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: Last Kiss
LUCA VESTE – Live event at Waterstones Liverpool Friday 13th at 6.30om, free contact @waterstonesl1 | Latest book: The Dying Place
LUKE DELANEY – Live chat on Killer Reads twitter feed | Podcast interview about Toy Taker and Cold Killing | Latest book: The Jackdaw
LYNN SHEPHERD – Discusses historical crime fiction with Bruce Holsinger and Chris Nickson on Killer Reads facebook | Q&A | Latest Book: The pierced heart
MALCOLM MACKAY – Q&A | Latest book: The Night the Rich Men Burned
MARK SENNEN – Q&A | Live event at Waterstones Plymouth Drake Circus, Saturday 14th at 11am, contact @waterstonesdrak | blog: Writing Space | Latest book: Tell-Tale
MARTYN WAITES – Discusses the intersection of crime and music with Peter May, Stav Sherez and William Shaw on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
MATTHEW DUNN – Live chat on Killer Reads twitter feed | Latest book: Slingshot
MEL SHERRATT – Discusses Domestic Noir on Killer Reads facebook
NEIL BROADFOOT – Q&A | Latest book: The Storm
PATRICIA CORNWELL – Podcast interview about Flesh and Blood | Podcast BookD live event | Latest book: Flesh and Blood
PATRICK KENDRICK – Q&A | Look out for: Acoustic shadows
PAUL FINCH – Q&A | ‘What I’ve learned through scriptwriting’ on Killer Reads twitter feed | Live event at Waterstones Liverpool Friday 13th at 6.30om, free contact @waterstonesl1 Latest book: Dead Man Walking
PETER JAMES – Q&A | Latest book: You are Dead
PETER MAY – Discusses the intersection of crime and music with Martyn Waites, Stav Sherez and William Shaw on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: Entry Island
ROSIE CLAVERTON – Discusses mental health and crime on Killer Reads twitter feed | Q&A | Latest book: Code Runner
RYAN MOSS – forensic pathologist live chat on Killer Reads facebook
S WILLIAMS – blog: The Weapons of Tuesday | Latest book: Tuesday Falling
SARAH HILARY – Interviews Isabelle Grey on Killer Reads twitter feed | Pre-order her book No other darkness
SHEENA LAMBERT – Q&A | Live chat about Irish Crime Fiction with Ava McCarthy, Louise Phillips and William Ryan on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: The Lake
SIMON TOLKEIN – Podcast interview about The Inheritance | Latest book: Orders from Berlin
SIMON TOYNE – Live chat on Waterstones facebook | Live event at Waterstones Brighton, Friday 13th March at 7.30pm, free contact @brightonwstones | Podcast about writing the Sanctus Trilogy | Podcast on Writer’s envy: Thomas Harris | Latest book: Solomon Creed
SJI HOLLIDAY – Q&A | Latest Book: Black Wood
SJ PARRIS – Twitter chat with Jonny Geller on Killer Reads twitter feed | Live event at Guildford Waterstones, Friday 13th March at 7pm, free contact @guildfordbooks | Podcast on the Harrogate Crime Festival | Podcast on Writer’s envy: Umberto Eco | Latest book: Treachery
SK TREMAYNE – Q&A | blog: plot, plot, plot | Latest book: The Ice Twins
SOPHIE HANNAH– Podcast on The Monogram Murders | Latest book: The Monogram Murders
STAV SHEREZ – Discusses the intersection of crime and music with Martyn Waites, Peter May and William Shaw on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: A Dark Redemption
STEVE CAVANAGH – Emerging voices in crime fiction on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: The Defence
STUART MACBRIDE – Podcast on writing the sequel to Birthdays for the Dead | Podcast on Writer’s envy: A. A. Milne | Latest book: The Missing and the Dead
TONY SCHUMACHER – Q&A | Live event at Waterstones Liverpool Friday 13th at 6.30om, free contact @waterstonesl1 | Latest book: The Darkest Hour
VAL McDERMID – Live event at Waterstones Edinburgh West End 13th March, 6pm. Register Free here | Latest book: The Anatomy of Crime
WILL SMITH – Q&A | Live chat on Killer Reads twitter feed | Latest book: Mainlander
WILLIAM RYAN – Live chat about Irish Crime Fiction with Ava McCarthy, Louise Phillips and Sheena Lambert on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: The Twelfth Department
WILLIAM SHAW – Q&A | Discusses the intersection of crime and music with Martyn Waites, Peter May and Stav Sherez on Killer Reads facebook | Latest book: A House of Knives