The Big Day is here- Crime Fiction meets Crime Fact at CSI Portsmouth - tickets available on the door

Looking forward to CSI Portsmouth today and joining my fellow crime writers, best selling crime authors Mark Billingham, John Harvey  and Michael Ridpath along with Police, forensic psychologists, fingerprint experts, Scene of Crime Officers for a day of crime fiction and crime fact.  Tickets are on sale on the door at the John Pounds Centre, Portsea, Portsmouth UK. So if you haven't booked you can still come along.

If you want to know:

  • how the fingerprinting bureau works,
  • what it’s like to be in charge of a major murder investigation,
  • what makes someone commit murder,
  • how a crime scene is worked,
  • how crime authors come up with their intricate plots,
  • how they research their novels,
  • how they turn fact into fiction

then join us for a packed programme of crime at the crime scene:

John Pounds Community Centre, Portsmouth
23 Queen Street, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hants, PO1 3HN
Telephone Number: 023 9289 2010
http://www.johnpoundscentre.co.uk/how_to_find_us.html

CSI Portsmouth today: Saturday 5th November 2011

There are two talks available in the morning from 10am to 12.30pm

  • True Crime – In Charge Of Murder – How a real murder case is worked, former Detective Superintendent Bob Bridgestock tells it like it is.

And tickets are left for the main afternoon panel in the afternoon from 2pm to 5pm in the large hall, so plenty of room to squeeze more people in!

Cost for the day £10.00 or for the afternoon only £7.00

And if you miss this year's event, I'll be posting lots of photos here and on my web site and Facebook page.

Look out for details for CSI Portsmouth 2012!!!

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