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Poisoned Pen, Phoenix

Like Book Passage, Poisoned Pen is something of a legend in the US book world, thanks to its owner, the tireless Barbara Peters. It’s a couple of years since I’ve been in Phoenix so it will be a delight to stop there on my way back from California. I’ll be talking at the main store at 4014 N Goldwater, Scottsdale, at 7pm on July 1.

Stratford Literary Festival

The Stratford Literary Festival is brand new, and it certainly has attracted an interesting lineup for its debut year. I’ll be in the fine company of Sophia Hannah and the writing partnership of Nicci French on Thursday May 1 and 4.30pm, to discuss ‘Crime - Agatha Christie versus the New Kids on the Block’.

It’s a ticketed event for this very busy festival - check out the details here.

West Mersea, for the Essex Book Festival

Essex is one of the many counties that now has a lively book festival. I’ll be there for this year’s, at West Mersea Library, Colchester, on March 17, at 2.30 pm. This is a ticketed event so please make sure you book. More details here.

Barcelona Negra 2008

I’ll be in the Catalan capital briefly for Barcelona Negra 2008 in early February. Expect to see e around the Palau de la Virreina in La Rambla on February 7 and 8. My event at the book festival is at 17.45 in the Palau de la Virreina where I will be discussing inspectors, classic and modern, with Andy Oaks, Mark Billingham, Juan Bolea, and Leif G. W. Persson, moderated by José Luis Serrano.

The Costa books have proved popular in Spain, which was the setting for my first ever novel, Semana Santa. So it will be delightful to be back in the country, albeit briefly, and particularly to meet my enthusiastic Spanish publisher, Nausicaa, who are always among the first to have the Costa stories in translation, as well as standalones such as The Promised Land and Lucifer’s Shadow.

They do beautiful covers too as you can see below.

Barcelona briefly

I’ll be in the beautiful Catalan capital of Barcelona briefly in February for the annual crime writing festival there, Barcelona Negra. Not quite sure of appearances yet but I will be around from February 7 to 9. You can pick up more details on the developing programme here.

Essex Book Festival, March 2008

I’ll be heading over to the Thames estuary in March for an event at the Essex Book Festival, one of the biggest and most popular in southern England. Expect to see me at West Mersea Library
13 High Street, west Mersea, Colchester CO5 8QA, on March 17th, 2008, at 2.30 pm. Please check with the festival website http://www.essexbookfestival.org.uk/ about booking details.

Harrogate Crime Writing Festival

The dates for the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival have now been fixed and I’m delighted to say I’ll be going along next year too. For those of you who like to plan ahead set aside July 17 to 20, 2008, for what has rapidly become one of the most important events in the European crime fiction diary.

I’ll be chairing an event on Saturday, July 19. More details to come.