BOX OFFICE: OPENS 1st NOVEMBER 2025
Friday 6th February 2026
20:00 to 21:00
Mark Billingham with Graham Bartlett
‘The Talk is all of Murder!’
Ex-homicide detective and award winning author, Graham Bartlett talks to award winning author, Mark Billingham, creator of the iconic homicide detective Tom Thorne.
Saturday 7th February 2026
10:00 to 11:00
Crime for small kids: Who Poisoned Bad Boy Bob?
‘Who poisoned Bad Boy Bob? An illustrated story with the wonderful Hilary Whitehall.
Who would poison a handsome dog? And why? Listen to the story, solve the clues and help Hilary and police dog Zippy solve the crime. For 5+ year olds.
12:00 to 13:00
Martin Edwards and Antony Johnston with Festival Patron Victoria Dowd
‘Criminal Minds’
Victoria Dowd, sets the criminal scene for Martin Edwards and Antony Johnston – two of our most thrilling, multi-award winning writers.
14:00 to 15:00
Trevor Wood, Graham Bartlett and Festival Patron, Bernard O’Keefe
‘A Party to Murder’.
Get together with these doyens of detection. It will be killing!
16:00 to 17:00
Tom Mead and Festival Patron Victoria Dowd.
‘Abracadabra - it's Murder!’
Join the wizards of the locked room mysteries and see if you can work out how they dunnit!
18:00 to 19:00
Mark Ellis, Barbara Nadel,Vaseem Khan with Festival Organiser Anne Mullins
‘Dying in Place’
Anne finds that from London to Istanbul to Mumbai, travelling with these incomparable writers is murder all the way.
20:00 to 21:00
Sophie Hannah with Festival Patron Victoria Dowd
‘There is nothing like a dame!’
As you’ll find out when in it comes to these two award winning writers on murder at its trickiest.
Sunday 8th February 2026
10:00 to 11:00
Crime for the Young
Sophie Cleverley with Vanessa O’Loughlin
‘Girls - and boys - just wanna have fun’ - and that’s what they get solving crimes with these two brilliant writers for the young.
12:00 to 13:00
Festival Patron Bernard O’Keefe
‘What lurks beneath’
Uncover the horrors of murder as Bernard leads you through the crime scenes in the leafy green of Garibaldi’s Barnes.
Be safe going home!!
14:00 to 15:00
S.J. Bennet and Vanessa O’Loughlin with Tom Mead
‘Right Royal Murder’
Tom Mead in discussion with the kick ass queens of detection.
18:00 to 19:00
Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger
with Harriet Gilbert
‘Murder Most Noir’
Feel the chill as Harriet Gilbert talks to the scions of Scandi murder
20:00 to 21:00
Frank Gardiner with Vaseem Khan
‘I Spy’
Vaseem Khan turns his eyes from his vibrant Mumbai to explore with Frank Gardiner the wild world of Frank’s ex-commando Luke Carlton. Frank is the BBC’s Security Correspondent but there is nothing secure about Carlton’s high risk world. It’s live and let die!