Capital Crime

Home from a couple of fantastic days at @CapitalCrime1 to some more amazing crime fiction book mail. It will take me a while to say thank you properly, so thank you if you sent me something here. 📚😊

This was the absolute best @CapitalCrime1 so far. What a fantastic line-up, what a great atmosphere. Thank you @DavidHHeadley and all the wonderful authors who happily signed these books. See you next year!

I may have gotten a touch carried away at @CapitalCrime1.

There are more photos on the gram but I had a wonderful time at @CapitalCrime1 - some stellar panels. I wish I could have gone to them all, but it was great to catch up with friends and meet readers, thank you to the whole team who raised the bar again 🙌

1/3 Some iconic images from @CapitalCrime1 ... Nick Harkaway (son of John Le Carré, now continuing the Smiley novels) turned up with a rapier. And so we decided I had to be knighted. We couldn't decide what for.

Thank you to all our amazing attendees for making this year's @CapitalCrime1 our biggest and best festival yet! With over 2000 people through the doors, we are so grateful for your support. We are already looking forward to next year, and we are excited to announce that the…

@CapitalCrime1 It was mine and my daughter’s first time at Capital Crime yesterday and we had the best time and we will be back next year! Thank you all 👏👏🥰

And that’s a wrap on #CapitalCrime25! 😢 But fear not! Early bird weekend tickets for 2026 are officially on sale at capitalcrime.org/tickets 🥳🥳 HUGE thank you to @DavidHHeadley & @LizzieCurle for creating yet another incredible weekend of all things crime & thriller!

Overheard at #capitalcrime25 “I’ve played enough unlikable villains on screen so my taste for writing came from playing those - through trying to understand how people became that person, because no one is born evil.” - @RCArmitage

Vaseem Khan: “We like to experiment , our series have been good to us, but we like to write new things. … It’s exciting to take on the Bond franchise. You open yourselves up and you’re vulnerable as authors.” #capitalcrime25

@VaseemKhanUK and @MWCravenUK looking neither shaken nor stirred, chatting all things #JamesBond #CrimeFiction

Thanks to @DavidHHeadley and Lizzie Curle and everyone at @CapitalCrime1 for organising and putting on another fantastic festival #CapitalCrime25 from the team at HW Fisher. See you next year!

“There’s a lot of criticism about inconsistent characters, but often when researching for books you realise how contradictory and stupid and quixotic and inconsistent people are. And if I put it in a book, I would be slated!” - @RuthWareWriter #capitalcrime25

Sad to be leaving @CapitalCrime1 but leaving on an absolute high. I never took a single photo so you’ll have to take my word for it that I had great fun. Thank you to every single person who chatted to me over the weekend and to @DavidHHeadley and @LizzieCurle for the invite 🤩

Shared great panel with @RevRichardColes Tim Sullivan and @TheBlakeMara @CapitalCrime1. Thanks to organisers, panelists audiences and book lovers for making it wonderful day.

Another brilliant panel with @DorothyKoomson @RuthWareWriter & Anna Sharpe “If you do me wrong, you’re going to go in my books!” - Dorothy Koomson

Is it wrong that I’m fangirling over the lovely @JaneCaseyAuthor Don’t care. A fabulous writer with a great personality makes for a lovely and entertaining panel @CapitalCrime1

The utterly fabulous @Anna_Mazz interviewing the equally as fabulous @RuthWareWriter and @DorothyKoomson this afternoon @CapitalCrime1 - exploring the human mind… 🤔 Are we exploring our own minds when we write? Discuss… 😮 #BookTwitter #BookTweet #CrimeNovels

Absolutely loved the VR experience @CapitalCrime1 to showcase Artificial Wisdom by @tom_weaver which asks you to question your morals and trust levels… 🤔 Who would you vote for? 🗳️ Out in the autumn from @TransworldBooks #CrimeBooks #BookTweet

Capital Crime really is the most welcoming and friendliest of festivals @CapitalCrime1