Special Guest: Jeff Lindsay

Full details of the 2010 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival programme will be announced at a launch reception on Thursday 11th February.

Details of authors and events will be available on the website soon after, so keep watching this space.

Internationally best-selling author Stuart MacBride, along with the Festival Programming Committee, has put together a programme packed with fresh ideas and new authors alongside firm Festival favourites. The special guest line up has already been announced with Christopher Brookmyre, Jeffery Deaver, Joanne Harris, Jeff Lindsay, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin and Karin Slaughter all taking centre stage over the four days of the Festival, 22-25 July.

They will be joined by over 70 crime writers from the UK and all over the world. Find out which of your favourite authors will be hitting Harrogate for the hottest crime scene of the summer from the 11th February!