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Crime Thrillers and Writing Festival in Old Peculier Harrogate

Budding authors and active readers can join the thriller and crime writing fest in Harrogate during July as part of the Harrogate festival. Plot your time as you feast on the programme of events and you will have no time to kill.
Mass murderers, obvious suspects and serial killers need not apply for tickets

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The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is back at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate and claims (again) it could be the best yet. This year sees the grittier and true crime end of the spectrum meet with some of the biggest names in the business:

Crime Authors at Writing Festival

2012

  • Harlan Coben
  • Peter James
  • Mark Billingham
  • Kate Mosse
  • Jo Nesbo
  • John Connolly
  • Sue Townsend and almost 100 others

2011

  • David Baldacci, Linwood Barclay, Lee Child,
  • Martina Cole, Lisa Gardner, Tess Gerritsen,
  • Dennis Lehane and Howard Marks
  • As usual there will also be many lesser well known authors with many a tale to tell.

Improve Your Own Books and Scripts

Crime Writers Reference Guide: 1001 Tips for Writing the Perfect Crime above as a Kindle edition from amazon

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Crime Writers Guide to Police Practice and Procedure

Or check out the competition with the latest Crime Thrillers from amazon

Crime Books for Theakston Beer Drinkers

  • Cask & Ale by Yorkshire Muagham
  • Bitter is the Beer, Dark is the Mild by Duke O’York
  • Old Peculier Goings On By Mollie Masham
  • Danger XB by Bomber Graham
  • Black Bull the Politically Incorrect Boozer by Shep Black
  • Gottle of Geer by unknown junkie ventriloquist

Bring Back Heartbeat

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Yorkshire has been the location and produced the material for some great television series.

  • All Creatures Great and Small based on the vet books of James Herriot set in the 1940′s and 1950′s.
  • Emmerdale which had and perhaps still has a farming theme.
  • Detectives, Dalziel and Pasco is set and shot in Yorkshire, whilst Frost’s Denton may be in the midlands orĀ  even Oxford but it was shot by YTV in and around Wakefield and Pontefract.

However the number one Cop show in our house was the 1960′s based Heartbeat. The moorland farms quiete roads and North Yorkshire Moors railway gave the film crews a great location for this long running series. (the DVD’s of series 1 & 2 can be bought from Amazon by clicking on the picture).

Questions that need Answers from ITV

  • Why has production stopped?
  • Why has the ITV website for this show been frozen in aspic?
  • Why haven’t we seen some more spin off shows if the writers have got writers cop block?
  • When can we have our show back?

This is not a petition to the commissioning section at ITV but adding a comment to our post will show the extent of public feelings.

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Read about the life and times of two real Yorkshire Coppers on More Books than Bookings for Mike Pannett and Martyn Johnson