Calling all ‘Crime Fiction’ fans – have we got a treat for you! The Festival’s opening night sees us welcome Guardian columnist Mark Lawson, host of BBC 4 series Mark Lawson Talks to… as well as BBC Radio 4’s flagship arts programme Front Row. The Deaths is his first book in 8 years, and is described as a ‘consummately plotted crime novel and a forensic social satire’. Set in the idyllic English countryside the novel is the story of a close knit group of wealthy friends and their seemingly perfect lives which are suddenly destroyed by an unthinkable act…
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Next up is Sara Sheridan who will be entertaining the audience in The Chapel as she talks about her new book London Calling. Set in the ‘nifty fifties’ we’re treated to an evocative tale of the search for a missing girl from a Soho nightclub; jazz musician Lindon Claremont, the last person to be seen with her is under suspicion for her abduction, when he’s taken into custody his old friend Vesta Churchill seeks the aid of her friend Mirabelle Bevan and the two of them head to London to search through the underworld of smoky night clubs, smart cars and lethal cocktails to establish the truth of the disappearance…
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Our third crime event of the evening is a rare treat - we're delighted to welcome the 'Father of Tartan Noir', William McIlvanney to Lennoxlove -McIlvanney's Laidlaw is back…re-released this year to great acclaim, he comes to Lennoxlove to talk to us about Jack Laidlaw's Glasgow; a city of hard men, powerful villains and self-made businessmen, of big industry and its victims, of enduring women, terrible slums and, one morning, of murder…
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Finally, we wrap up the evening with the inimitable Chris Brookmyre – whose new novel Flesh Wounds has been described as his darkest, funniest and most complex novel yet – Chris' events are always hilarious, dark and fairly close to the bone!
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