This will be the eighteenth year that the venerable Cambridge book store Heffers has run its annual get-together for crime writers and readers. I’ll be along at 6.30 pm on Tuesday July 15, in the company of scores of other fellow authors. Among those promised are Tony Black, Stephen Booth, Chelsea Cain, Armand Cabasson, Cassandra Clark, Barbara Cleverly, Natasha Cooper, Charles Cumming, Anna Dean, David Donachie, R. S. Downie, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Jane Finnis, Elena Forbes, Ariana Franklin, Philip Gooden, Dolores Gordon-Smith, Ian Gosling, Veronica Heley, Kaye Hill, Suzette Hill, Lis Howell, Claude Izner, Lee Jackson, Jim Kelly, Deryn Lake, Patrick Lennon, Jack Ludlow, Adrian Magson, Andrew Martin, R. N. Morris, The Mulgray Twins, Stuart Pawson, Christine Poulson, Ann Purser, Mike Ripley, David Roberts, Zoe Sharp, Ros Southey, Rebecca Stott, Andrew Taylor, Nicola Upson, Jill Paton Walsh, Laura Wilson and many more…

Heffers is at 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1TY. Tel: 01223 568568. This is a very jolly, unique event. I think there may be a small entrance, refundable on a book purchase, but for the facts please contact the store above or on literature@heffers.co.uk.