Announcing the line of up of best-selling crime authors and crime experts for CSI Portsmouth 2013
I'm delighted to be able to announce the line up for this year's exciting CSI Portmouth event. Internationally acclaimed crime
authors will be appearing alongside police and forensic experts to debate crime fiction and crime fact at the brand new venue for 2013 at this year’s CSI Portsmouth on Saturday 2 November as part of Portsmouth BookFest.
Taking part in CSI Portsmouth 2013 are crime authors S. J
Bolton, Natasha Cooper, M.R. Hall, Kerry Wilkinson and myself. I will be moderating the one day event discussing crime
fiction and fact at The Princess Royal Gallery at the National Museum of the
Royal Navy in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Kerry Wilkinson’s debut, Locked In,
the first in the DS Jessica Daniel series became a UK Number One Kindle
bestseller. Now published by Pan Macmillan, Kerry is the first self-published
British author to have an ebook number one and reach the top twenty of the UK
paperback chart which he achieved with Think
of the Children, the fourth in the DS Jessica Daniel series, published in
February 2013. The fifth in the series Playing
with Fire is published on 18 July.
S J Bolton’s books have been on the bestseller lists
and have been shortlisted for several international awards. Her latest book, Like This, For Ever, was published in
April 2013 and her debut novel, Sacrifice, is in the process of being made into a Hollywood film.
Natasha Cooper is author of the Willow King and Trish
Maguire novels and those featuring forensic psychologist Karen Taylor published
under the name N. J. Cooper. Vengeance
in Mind was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold
Dagger.
And for those who don't know me. I am founder of CSI Portsmouth and
author of the Solent based crime novels featuring the flawed and rugged DI
Andy Horton. Hailed in the UK and the USA as the 'Best of British Crime
Fiction,' they have been translated into several languages including Chinese.
The ninth in the DI Horton series, Undercurrent, was
published by Severn House in January 2013 and the tenth, Death Surge is published in September 2013.
We will be joined on the panels by police and forensic experts including:
Michael Ellis, Drugs Intelligence Officer, Hampshire
Police, who has worked on drug
operations securing hundreds of convictions;
Forensic toxicologist Dr Alex
Allan, co-founder
of Triple A Forensics and consultant with Manlove Forensics who has dealt with many
high profile cases including those involving suspected murders;
Sergeant Tony Birr of Hampshire Police Marine Unit;
Brian Chappell MBE, a former Detective Chief Inspector with the Metropolitan
Police, New Scotland Yard with experience of working on complex and high level
investigations and who is now a senior lecturer at the Institute of CriminalJustice Studies at the University of Portsmouth;
Plus Hampshire Police
Fingerprint bureau and the Dog Support Unit.
Portsmouth BookFest is a festival of popular
literature organised by The Hayling Island Bookshop and Portsmouth City Council
and runs from 19 October to 3 November. Its aim is to promote reading for
pleasure and enthusiasm for literature in the city of Portsmouth.
CSI Portsmouth 2013 is being held on Saturday 2
November at National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Tickets cost £15 for the day which includes a free paperback book from the mobile bookshop provided by the Hayling Island Bookshop on the day. Tickets go on sale on Monday 9 September.
Tickets cost £15 for the day which includes a free paperback book from the mobile bookshop provided by the Hayling Island Bookshop on the day. Tickets go on sale on Monday 9 September.
For more details on CSI Portsmouth 2013 and the programme visit http://www.rowmark.co.uk/csi-portsmouth/
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