Let’s talk about that first. The shortlist for this year’s award includes the following books:
Where the Bodies are Buried
Black Flowers
Before I Go To Sleep
Now You See Me
The End of the Wasp Season
The Burning Soul
You can vote for the book you think deserves to win by clicking here. Strangely, only Black Flowers has been reviewed here on Crime Fiction Lover and got a rating of five stars.
There will be all kinds of panel discussions too. The validity of digital publishing will be debated in Wanted for Murder: The eBook, and in Writing for Your Life former intelligence agents and investigative journalists will be discussing what it’s like to write about real matters of life and death. Crime in Another Dimension will look at genre crossovers with sci-fi and urban fantasy, and there’s also going to be a special event around the Golden Globe-winning TV programme Luther.
Tickets for many of the individual events are still available priced between £9.50 and £12, however day and weekend passes are now sold out. Click here to visit the festival website and order tickets. The festival has been running since 2003.
If you’re going, drop us a note in the comments below and tell us what you’re most looking forward to. If not, we’d love to know which book you’re going to vote for as Crime Novel of the Year (see above).