Celebration alert!
Murder Squad celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2025, and we have a couple of brilliant events planned. Fantastic new independent bookshop, Serenity Books in Romiley, Stockport will be hosting a special in person event (with all the Squad present) on 21st May 2025.
And later that month we’re arranging an international online panel discussion with all of us present again. The organiser is Ian Skillicorn, Founder of Liverpool’s highly popular Smithdown Litfest. The date for your diary is Saturday, 31st May, 2025.
Past Events
The reopening of Timperley Library, March 2022
Celebrating 21 years of Murder Squad and the release of our new anthology MANY DEADLY RETURNS in a zoom event with Barbara Peters at The Poisoned Pen. Catch it on FB on YouTube or podcast.
Bay Tales Live #3Two Authors Chat – Ann Cleeves and Cath Staincliffe in conversation. Recorded Wednesday Feb 17th 2021 7:30 pm.
Murder Squad Weekend @The Word
Huddersfield Literature Festival in conversation with Ann Cleeves (photo thanks to Jonathan Jacob)
Having fun at Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2018
At Mansfield Library with book reviewer Lu-Ellen of Lu’s Reviews
At Tottington Library, Bury.
At Bloody Scotland – with a whole slew of crime writers.
Wordfest16 at Altrincham Library talking about Half The World Away
Interviewing Peter May at Waterstones Deansgate.
Launch of The Starlings and Other Stories by Murder Squad and Accomplices edited by Ann Cleeves.
Waterstones Wrexham.
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate 2015
The Morality of Murder panel with Nicci French, Belinda Bauer, Jonathan Freedland and Wiley Cash.
Sarah Hilary wins the TOPCrime 2015 novel of the year
Special Guest at the KRO Detective Premiere Screening in the Tuschinski Theatre Amsterdam June 2015 Photo © Robert Aarts
Murder Squad at Carlisle Crime Writing Weekend June 2015
Signing books at Holywell Library for World Book Day 2015
At Bradford City Library 1st Anniversary celebration. With their book tree.