Hillingdon Libraries Crime Festival

Open to adults

There will be a licensed bar and signed books will be available to purchase on the day. 

Tickets cost £8 and give you full access to all the author panels on the day. On arrival, we will check your booking and then provide you with a wristband. This will allow you to come and go in and out of the theatre. 

Please note: Authors subject to change.

The authors

Mark Billingham

Mark Billingham is one of the UK's most acclaimed and popular crime writers. A former actor, television writer and stand-up comedian.

Fiona Cummins

Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course. 

Rev Richard Coles

The Reverend Richard Coles is the presenter of 'Saturday Live' on BBC Radio 4. He is also the only vicar in Britain to have had a number-1 hit single and appeared on 'Strictly Come Dancing' and 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!'

Richard is releasing the 5th book in his Canon Clement Mystery series.

Nicci French

Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. They have written more than 25 crime books, and their books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

CL Taylor

Cally Taylor is the 9 times Sunday Times bestselling author of 11 gripping stand-alone psychological thrillers, her newest book 'It's Always the Husband', published on 5 June 2025.

She's the recipient of 4 Nielsen Silver Bestseller Awards and her books have sold more than 2 million copies in the UK alone.

Elly Griffiths

Elly Griffiths is the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and the Brighton Mysteries. She has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, and has been shortlisted 5 times for the Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year.

Kristen Perrin

Kristen Perrin is originally from Seattle, Washington, where she spent several years working as a bookseller before moving to the UK to do a master's and a PhD. 'How to Seal your own fate' is her second novel.

Orlando Murrin

Orlando Murrin edited Woman and Home, BBC Good Food and founded Olive magazine. He then become a chef-hotelier in SW France and Somerset. Orlando has now turned to Crime fiction and has just released book 2 in the Paul Delamare series.

S J Bennett

SJ Bennett is the author of the international mystery series, featuring Queen Elizabeth II as a secret solver of crimes. She has written more than a dozen novels for both adults and children, and her award-winning books have been optioned for TV and translated into more than 20 languages.