Cops & Robbers

Friday 19 July 2024 | 2.00pmLive Event Tent| Old Swan Hotel | HarrogateTicket: £15Please note that all transactions are subject to a £2.50 booking fee.  A maximum of 6 tickets can be booked at one time.Please note – If you purchase a ticket for this event you do not need to purchase a separate site pass.BOOK NOWPlease Note: Online and door sales will reopen Friday 19 July subject to availabilityFrom Roderick Alleyn to Aurelio Zen, from Cagney to Lacey and back again, police officers are among the most enduring and intriguing characters in detective fiction. Four of the best police procedural writers around will explain how they untangle the thin blue line.

The Kill List, the third in Nadine Matheson’s acclaimed Inspector Henley series, sees the reemergence of a killer thought to be behind bars. In Christie J Newport’s twisty The Ordinary Man, Detective Beth Fellows races to track down a fiendish killer. Simon Mason’s two DI Wilkins search for a missing celebrity in Lost and Never Found. DS Washington Poe is the much-loved hero of MW Craven’s brilliant series of novels, most recently the #TheakstonsAwards winner for The Botanist.

Bestseller Mark Billingham, a Thorne between roses, is in the chair.Ticket Collection: All tickets for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival are to be collected from our on-site box office, located at the entrance of the Old Swan Hotel, from 3.00pm on Thursday 18 July 2024. The box office will remain open throughout the Festival weekend. Collection of tickets prior to 18 July will not be possible.

All events will be at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate, HG1 2SR. Please note that there is no parking available at the Old Swan Hotel.

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