The Crime Warp

Ma rtina Cole | Mark Billingham | Kathy Reichs Mick Herron | Lisa Gardner | Michael Connelly | Elly Griffiths 23-26 July 2020 | Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate harrogateinternationalfestivals.com  | #TheakstonsCrime | #HIF2020 | Images  here Photo credit: Kathy Reichs by Marie Reine-Mattera The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is thrilled to announce its 2020 Special Guests at the world’s largest and most prestigious crime fiction festival. Crime writing royalty  Martina Cole, Mark Billingham, Lisa Gardner, Kathy Reichs, Elly Griffiths, Mick Herron  and  Michael Connelly  will be appearing as part of the killer line-up curated by this year’s Festival Programming Chair and  Rebus  author,  Ian Rankin OBE . From 23-26 July, Harrogate’s Old Swan Hotel – the legendary scene of Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance in 1926 – will welcome over 100 world famous authors for a celebration of the crime ...

A novel longlisted for the Man Booker is up against debut authors in the most hotly contended crime writing prize in the country. 2019 marks the 15th year of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. The prize was created to celebrate the very best in crime fiction and is open to UK and Irish crime authors whose novels were published in paperback from 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2019. Belinda Bauer, a previous winner of the Crime Novel of the Year Award for her novel  Rubbernecker  in 2014, enters the longlist with her 2018 Man Booker longlisted,  Snap.  Bauer however battles an awards-heavy longlist. Multiple-award winner Val McDermid, the No.1 bestseller and ‘queen of crime’, received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction at the Festival in 2016 and won the Crime Novel of the Year in 2006. Her latest,  Broken Ground , makes the 2019 longlist. Chris Brookmyre won the Novel of the Year award in 2017 for  Black Widow . He r...

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival unveiled its 2019 programme at an exclusive launch party at Browns Courtrooms in London (Wed April 3, 6.30pm). Chair of the 2019 Programming Committee, Mari Hannah, unveiled a packed line-up for the world’s most celebrated crime writing festival, with authors ‘in conversation’, in action and in the bar. Now in its 17 th  year, the festival takes place at Agatha Christie’s old haunt, The Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate from 18 to 21 July. Mari Hannah, award-winning author and festival reader-in-residence said: “The Theakston programming committee has a reputation for attracting the finest crime writers to the festival from around the world and we’ve done it again. The response to this year’s line-up has been incredible. I’m looking forward to welcoming readers in July.” Special Guests are James Patterson, MC Beaton, Stuart MacBride, Jeffery Deaver, Belinda Bauer, Eva Dolan, Erin Kelly, Harlan Coben, Ian Rankin and Val Mc...