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Crime Day
Come and join us for this special crime day, Thursday 12 May 2011, 10:30 am at the EMMTEC, University of Lincoln.
Tickets are £6 for half day / £10 for both sessions / £15 for all day inc Val McDermid.
10:30am: Come and meet the panel of experts talking about how to get published
11:30am: Talks with Stephen Booth (Creator of young Derbyshire police detectives DC Ben Cooper and DS Diane Fry)
Lunch
2pm Major elements in writing
3pm Sophie Hannah (Author of six physiological thrillers)
Come learn from the experts.
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Teresa Chris has specialized in crime fiction since the early nineties when she established her eponymous literary agency in London. Famed for discovering new talent and working editorially with her authors many have appeared on the bestseller lists and won awards such as the Gold and Silver Daggers, The Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction as well as numerous mystery awards in the US including the Edgars. Her current crime authors include amongst others Stephen Booth, Rory Clements and Louise Penny.
Kate Lyall Grant has worked in mainstream trade publishing for over twenty years, for the past fifteen as a senior commissioning editor for Hodder & Stoughton and, most recently, Simon & Schuster, specialising in crime, thrillers and commercial women’s fiction. Bestselling crime and thriller authors she has acquired and edited include Chris Carter (THE CRUCIFIX KILLER/THE EXECUTIONER), Martyn Waites, Craig Robertson and Patrick Redmond. She now has her own crime imprint, Creme de la Crime, at Severn House Publishers and also works with unpublished authors to lick their scripts into shape before approaching literary agents and editors.
Lisanna Radice was previously a partner in Gregory and Radice, literary agents. She now works as a freelence editorial consultant specialising in crime fiction. Lisanne is the author of several books including The Way to Write Crime Fiction
Laura Wilson lives in Islington, London, where she is currently working on her tenth crime novel. Her work has been widely acclaimed, and her fifth novel, The Lover, won the 2004 Prix du Polar Europeen in France. Her eighth novel, the first book in the D.I. Stratton series, won the 2008 Ellis Peters Award for Best Historical Crime Novel. She is the crime fiction reviewer for the Guardian newspaper and writes a 'Crime Fiction Masterclass' column for Mslexia magazine.
A former newspaper journalist, Stephen Booth is the creator of young Derbyshire police detectives DC Ben Cooper and DS Diane Fry, who have appeared in 11 crime thrillers, all set in the Peak District. The Cooper & Fry series has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, and in 2003 the Crime Writers’ Association presented Stephen with the Dagger in the Library Award for “the author whose books have given readers most pleasure.” The novels are sold all around the world, and have been translated into 15 languages. The most recent title in the series is THE DEVIL'S EDGE.
Sophie Hannah is the internationally best-
Start: 6.30 pm Tickets: £10
Come and meet Val McDermid the award winning author of numerous crime novels, including a series of books starring her most famous creation, clinical psychologist, Dr Tony Hill.
In 2010, bestselling crime writer Val McDermid was awarded the prestigious CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger. This followed her induction into the Hall of Fame at the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards in 2009, the same year in which she was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. In 2007, she won The Stonewall Writer of the Year Award.
Val is a top 10 bestseller, translated into more than 30 languages, with over two million copies sold in the UK and over 10 million worldwide. She has written 23 bestselling novels and Trick of the Dark is her 24th.
The popular ITV series Wire in the Blood based on McDermid’s books and starring Robson
Green as Tony Hill ran for an impressive six series. A 3-
Val was born in Kirkcaldy, a small town in the heart of the Scottish mining community. She graduated in English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford before going on to be an award winning journalist for sixteen years. Her first novel was published in 1987.
Val’s loves in life include walking on the beach, football (particularly Raith Rovers), cars and music. She writes full time and is also a regular broadcaster with BBC radio and writes occasional journalism. She divides her time between Cheshire and Northumberland.
“Wonderfully compelling stuff” – Daily Mail
“A workout for the grey cells, perfectly executed” – Daily Telegraph
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The critically acclaimed standalone novel from Val McDermid
What’s your earliest memory? I don’t mean something you’ve been told so many times
it feels like a memory. I’m talking about the first thing you remember through your
child’s eyes. A knee-
Set in the mysterious world of Oxford’s exclusive colleges, Trick of the Dark reveals what passions of love, family, greed and ambition can lead a person to do…
Disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint finds herself drawn into a murder case when a package of press cuttings is inexplicably sent to her about a crime which has occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college. A groom murdered within hours of his wedding. His bloodstained body ditched in the river as his bride and wedding guests sip champagne nearby.
As Charlie begins to delve into the case, she soon discovers things are not quite as they first appear…
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