EXCLUSIVE: Highlights from Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2009
CRIME doesn't pay. But sometimes it sure can thrill, particularly when some of the sharpest minds in fiction have had a hand in it.
Which is why more than 8,000 readers flocked to Harrogate for the 2009 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
As in previous years, the Yorkshire Post was at the Crown Hotel to capture the highlights and record exclusive interviews with some of the world's favourite crime writers as part of our OutLoud series.
In the first of this year's series of exclusive interviews recorded at the Crown Hotel, Reginald Hill talks to Sarah Walters about Dalziel and Pascoe and his writing career which spans almost 40 years.
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In the second interview, Sarah Walters talks to bestselling British novelist Lee Child about his award-winning Jack Reacher series
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In the third of the series, Natasha Cooper, now writing as NJ Cooper, discusses stereotypes, sexism in crime fiction, and why she's having more fun now than she ever did.
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Scottish author Caro Ramsay talks to Sarah Walters in the fourth of the series, revealing the delights of living with a poltergeist, why she has a soft spot for pit bulls, and how her second novel began with a cartoon character.
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George Pelecanos is regarded as one of the world's finest crime writers, and has reached a new generation of fans for his work on hit US television drama The Wire. In this interview he discusses his work ethic, the reaction of black audiences, and how David Simon persuaded him to join the team for his award-winning series.
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In the last of our one-to-one interviews, bestselling novelist Yrsa Sigurdardottir explains why she's finding it hard to like the love interest in her novels, how to make children behave, and the influence of Icelandic legends on her writing.
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Author Laura Wilson spoke to Sarah Walters earlier in the year about this year's festival programme as well as her own writing career.
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The winner of our competition for a weekend ticket to the 2010 Crime Writing Festival is Jack Hinchliffe, of Brampton, near Barnsley. He will also be getting a copy of each of the books that were in the running for this year's Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, which was won by Mark Billingham's Death Message.
This year's questions were:
As well as George Pelecanos, two other best-selling crime novelists have written for the hit US drama series The Wire. Who are they?
a) Elmore Leonard
b) Richard Price
c) Jeffrey Deaver
d) Michael Connolly
e) Dennis Lehane
The series began with a wiretap operation targeting which drugs dealer's operation?
a) Stringer Bell
b) Avon Barksdale
c) Marlo Stanfield
d) 'Proposition Joe'
e) Omar Little
Normal YP competition rules apply, click here to view>>
2009 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award shortlist:
Death Message, Mark Billingham
The Accident Man, Tom Cain
Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
Gone to Ground, John Harvey
Ritual, Mo Hayder
Garden of Evil, David Hewson
A Cure for all Diseases, Reginald Hill
The Colour of Blood, Declan Hughes
Dead Man's Footsteps, Peter James
Broken Skin, Stuart MacBride
Beneath the Bleeding, Val McDermid
Exit Music, Ian Rankin
Friend of the Devil, Peter Robinson
Savage Moon, Chris Simms
Listen to our interviews with Peter Robinson, Mo Hayder and Ian Rankin recorded earlier in our OutLoud series:
Doors Open - Ian Rankin>>
Ritual - Mo Hayder>>
All the Colours of Darkness - Peter Robinson, recorded at the 2008 Crime Writing Festival>>
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