Let's Have a Conference

There are several crime fiction conferences coming up this month, all of which are in the UK. First up is Shetland Noir, which is returning to the Mareel Arts Center in Mareel on Scotland's Shetland Islands, after a three-year absence. But they're making up for lost time with the participation of several internationally bestselling authors, including Lee Child, Louise Penny, Vaseem Khan, Professor Lorna Dawson, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, and Ann Cleeves. The event has panels, workshops, film screenings, and more from Thursday, June 11 through Sunday, June 14. 

The Hillingdon Libraries Crime Festival is a one-day affair on Saturday, June 13, at the Winston Churchill Theatre in Ickenham, with over fifteen authors scheduled to appear, including  M J Arlidge,  Louise Candlish, Araminta Hall, Tom Hindle, TM Logan, Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, Luca Vesta, and more. The authors will be on hand to discuss their books and writing in various panels, plus there will be signed books available for purchase, a fully licensed bar, and a pizza truck. 

Capital Crime returns June 18-20, in the heart of central London. Over 100 authors and experts will feature over the three-day program of panels, Q&As, book launches, quizzes, and industry networking events, culminating in the Fingerprint Awards, an annual reader-voted awards ceremony celebrating the very best new writing in the genre. Highlights include Lee Child, creator of the globally famous Jack Reacher novels, and his brother Andrew, who has taken up the baton, who will be in conversation with author and journalist Stig Abell. Other featured authors include Elly Griffiths, Abir Mukherjee, T.M. Logan, Vaseem Khan, MJ Arlidge, Chris Brookmyre, Catriona Ward, and Lucy Foley.

On June 20, the British Library will be hosting the 11th annual Bodies From the Library conference celebrating the Golden Age of Detective Crime Fiction (Agatha Christie and her contemporaries). The event includes a program of discussions, presentations, and panels, plua the chance to meet leading experts on classic detective fiction and modern authors whose novels follow in the Golden Age tradition. Although all tickets for this year’s conference have been sold, there is a wait list for tickets that are returned because the person can no longer attend.