
Early Bird tickets are already on sale for Bay Tales 2024. Interested? Then have a look at the picture gallery of the 2023 edition, and you'll find a booking link at the foot of the page!
- Thursday 15th - Sunday 18th June
- Shetland Noir
- Thursday 6th July, doors open 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm start
- In conversation with Mari Hannah at Hexham Mart, in aid of Chrysalis Club Tynedale (online booking).
- Thursday 20th - Sunday 23rd July
- Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate.
- Wednesday 30th August - Sunday 3rd September
- International Guest of Honour at Bouchercon 2023: San Diego Murder at the Marina.
- Thursday 21st - Sunday 24th September
- North Cornwall Book Festival
- Thursday 26 - Sunday 29 October
- international Writer in Residence, Terror Australis: Tassie Vice, Huon Valley, Tasmania
Murder Mysteries for you to solve...

And if there isn't an event happening near you, why not stage your own? Ann Cleeves has written some scripts especially for librarians and booksellers who would like to host their own murder mystery party.
Find out more about Bannocks and Blood - a DIY Shetland murder mystery - or just download all you need to stage your own from the Pan MacMillan website.
- or if you aren't ready to go out yet! There's also a Darkest Evening Murder Mystery for you to run online!