Publisher to host crime fiction event during book week

[John Dean]

 

I am really looking forward to being part of this event as part of Kirkcudbright Book Week, which runs in the Dumfries and Galloway town between March 4-10 2024.

Wednesday March 6 In Conversation with the Book Folks Crime Writers Selkirk Arms High Street Tickets £8 7pm - Publisher The Book Folks presents an evening with some of its best-selling crime writers from Scotland, including Traude Ailinger and Ian Robinson, with the event chaired by myself, also a best-selling Book Folks crime writer.

Born in Reutlingen, Germany, Traude Ailinger fell in love with Perthshire during a visit to Scotland and returned to the area to settle and bring up her children in 1994.

Since 2003, she has been teaching English as an Additional Language at Strathallan School in Perthshire and in her spare time became a crime writer.  In 2020, The Edinburgh Murders series was created, relating the adventures of DI Russell McCord and journalist Amy Thornton.

Ian Robinson spent twenty-seven years in the Metropolitan police, the majority as a Detective Sergeant within the Specialist Operations Command. He specialised in Child Protection and was part of a Major Investigation Team that targeted abusers and investigated the murder of children.

His last seven years were spent in the Covert Policing Command where he managed a specialist covert unit dedicated to the detection and disruption of organised criminal networks across London and the UK.

More information, including how to buy your tickets, is available at www.kirkcudbrightbookweek.org