Celebrating the world of words

In an interview with fellow crime writer, and co-founder of the Hull Noir Crime Writing Festival, Nick Quantrill, enjoy hearing from two crime writers at the top of their game.

On stage at Newark Town Hall, we are joined by the author of 22 Sunday Times bestsellers, Mark Billingham. Mark will introduce his twisty and witty follow-up detective novel The Wrong Hands, about an unconventional Detective Declan Miller who has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase . . . containing a pair of severed hands.

‘Mark Billingham gets better and better’ Michael Connelly
‘A literary superstar’ Mail on Sunday

The award-winning author of the bestselling Sam Wyndham crime novels set in 1920s India, Abir Mukherjee, is also taking to the stage, introducing his exciting new book Hunted. On the run from the authorities, the two parents featured in Abir’s newest publication are thrown together in a race against time to save their kids and stop a catastrophe that will derail the country’s future forever… You can’t save your kids. But can you stop them?

‘HUNTED is a phenomenal achievement’ The Times
‘A pretty much flawless thriller’ LEE CHILD