Crimefest, ThrillerFest, International Crime Festivals, CSI Portsmouth - Crime Conventions Galore
Crime fiction conferences and conventions are growing in popularity in the UK, Europe and in the USA. And in my own small corner of the World, last year saw the first CSI Portsmouth event in Portsmouth, UK, a crime convention with a difference where crime fiction meets crime fact, as best selling crime authors come face to face with the crime experts, police and forensic experts. I am happy to report that it was so successful that we are running another CSI Portsmouth this year on 5 November 2011 . I'm looking forward to being on the panel with my fellow crime writers, Mark Billingham, John Harvey and Michael Ridpath and officers from the Hampshire Police Major Crime Unit, Scene of Crime, and The International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. Plans are already being made for CSI Portsmouth 2012. I'm also delighted to again be participating in CrimeFest in Bristol in May, and hope to be at the Harrogate International Crime Fest...