Don’t miss your chance to hear from three of the best-selling authors of the year as they discuss different aspects of crime fiction.

Crime fiction has captivated readers across the ages, offering the thrill of solving a mystery. At times unsettling, and somehow, also a comfort, crime fiction is driven by quests for answers.

Don’t miss your chance to hear from three of the best-selling authors of the year as they discuss different aspects of crime fiction, from the amateur sleuth, police procedurals, psychological thrillers and the Golden Age.

The event will be hosted by bestselling author Harriet Tyce.

The event will be held at the Chelmsford Cathedral, New St, Chelmsford CM1 1TY.

About the authors

Richard Osman is an author, producer and television presenter. THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB novels are a record-breaking, multi-million-copy, bestselling series around the world. The movie adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club, produced by Amblin Entertainment, is available to watch on Netflix. WE CHASE SHADOWS continues the international bestseller WE SOLVE MURDERS series. Richard promises there are more books to come in both series. He lives in London with his wife, Ingrid, and their cats, Liesl and Lottie.

Lucy Foley is a No.1 SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author, whose contemporary murder mystery thrillers have sold over 10 million copies worldwide. She is a Waterstones Thriller of the Month author, a three-time nominee at the British Book Awards, and THE GUEST LIST was a Reese’s Book Club pick. A lifelong fan of Dame Agatha, she made literary history by writing the first official continuation novel starring Miss Marple, titled MURDER AT THE GRAND ALPINE HOTEL, at the invitation of the Agatha Christie Estate.

Mark Billingham is the author of over 20 novels, including SLEEPYHEAD, SCAREDY CAT, THE LAST DANCE and THE WRONG HANDS, all SUNDAY TIMES bestsellers. His latest novel is THE SHADOW STEP. For the creation of the Tom Thorne character, Billingham received the 2003 Sherlock Award for Best Detective created by a British writer, and he has twice won the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. In 2026 he was awarded The Diamond Dagger by CWA, regarded as the highest accolade in crime writing. He has previously worked as an actor and stand-up comedian on British television and still writes regularly for the BBC. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

Harriet Tyce is the million-copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of four novels. She grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before doing a law conversion course at City University. After practising as a criminal barrister in London for nearly a decade, she subsequently completed an MA in Creative Writing – Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, BLOOD ORANGE, published in 2019 to huge critical acclaim and she has since written multiple SUNDAY TIMES bestsellers. WITCH TRIAL is her fifth novel. In 2026, Harriet was a contestant on series 4 of The Traitors.

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