Double Dose of Yrsa Sigurdardottir in 2009

Icelandic author, Yrsa Sigurdardottir is not only attending CrimeFest (Bristol, 14-17 May 2009) but her publicist has confirmed that Yrsa will also be attending the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival (23-26 Jul 2009).

Yrsa's second Thora Gudmundsdottir book, My Soul To Take will be released in April 09.

Synopsis from amazon.co.uk:

The child started crying harder, trying desperately to stifle her sobs. This wasn’t right. Why couldn’t God just come and get her now, if He was so good? Why did she have to go down into that dark pit? She was afraid of the dark, and this was a bad place – her mother had told her so. The girl looked at the man and knew she was going down there whether she wanted to or not.

A grisly murder is committed at a health resort situated in a recently renovated farmhouse, which turns out to be notorious for being haunted. Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is called upon by the owner of the resort - the prime suspect in the case - to represent him. Her investigations uncover some very disturbing occurrences at the farm decades earlier – things that have never before seen the light of day…

MY SOUL TO TAKE is a chilling, dark and witty crime novel, and a welcome return for Thora, the heroine of the highly-acclaimed LAST RITUALS.

Read the euro crime review of the first in the series, Last Rituals, here.

CrimeFest 2008

The producers of LCC2006 proudly bring you CrimeFest 2008... Next year is a bumper year for Crime Conventions in the UK with Harrogate being accompanied by CrimeFest in Bristol, 5 to 8 June. Lee Child, Karin Fossum and Ian Rankin are the guest authors with Natasha Cooper as the toastrix.

There's quite a bit of information on the website already, but here's a summary from the homepage:

The CrimeFest registration fee is £125.
(For currency conversion, please visit www.xe.com/ucc.)

Registration includes attendance to all panels, a book bag, programme, and a light breakfast on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Tickets to the Saturday Gala or Sunday Buffet Dinners need to be purchased separately.

Highlights will include:
-A Gala Dinner on Saturday, the 7th of June
-Interviews with the featured Guest Authors and Toastrix
-The Last Laugh Award presentation
-In addition, there will be author panels and writers' workshops.