La Librairie – News – Orion’s immersive The Incident Room returns to Harrogate with Vaseem Khan and Julian Clary

Orion’s immersive event space, The Incident Room, will return to Harrogate on Friday 19 July 2024 and will run alongside the main program of Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.

Returning for its eighth year, the space will offer exclusive events for festival attendees, including a celebration of the publication of Murder in Harrogate, a collection of detective stories edited by Vaseem Khan, published by Orion in July. There will also be an Agatha Christie quiz, a live crime writers’ room and a conversation with Julian Clary about his beginnings in crime fiction. Reminder of the murder. The line-up will also include MJ Arlidge, Julia Crouch, Steph Broadribb, Vaseem Khan, Elly Griffiths, Ruth Ware, MW Craven and Mark Billingham alongside other Orion authors.

Following last year’s fundraising efforts, tickets to The Incident Room will once again be priced at £3 per person, with all profits going to Harrogate International Festivals’ educational programs.

Orion will also be offering a limited exclusive Harrogate at Home package for those unable to attend The Incident Room in person. Leanne Oliver, Publicity Director, said: “We are delighted to be collaborating again with the brilliant team at Harrogate International Crime Festival on the Orion Incident Room.

“Over the past seven years, the Orion Incident Room has featured many Orion debuts, including Love letters to a serial killer by Tasha Coryell, Partner in crime by Winnie Li and rag doll by Daniel Cole; as well as beloved authors such as Sir Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, Mari Hannah, Chris Whitaker and more. We look forward to welcoming more readers to this year’s event. »

Clement Roux, festival director, said: “As we prepare to welcome our visitors to the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival next month, we are delighted to see the two long-standing participants, some of whom have been with us since our first festival. in 2003, and many new faces. This year we present a bigger and better festival than ever! We are particularly excited to present the Murder in Harrogate panel as part of the Orion Incident Room, with five of the writers featured in the anthology commissioned to celebrate two decades of the Festival. We’re definitely ready for the hottest weekend on the crime calendar!”

Tickets for The Incident Room go on sale at 12pm today (Monday June 17, 2024). You can find out more here.