7:30pm Thursday 23 October

The Upper Floor, The Old Grammar School, Church Lane, Ledbury HR8 1DW


Ledbury Books and Maps is delighted to announce that its crime writing festival, Ledburied, is hosting an evening with Alis Hawkins and Clare Mackintosh on 23 October.

Alis Hawkins grew up in Ceredigion and currently lives in the Forest of Dean. Her Teifi Valley Coroner historical crime series has twice been shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Historical Dagger. The first in her Oxford Mysteries series, A Bitter Remedy, was shortlisted for the 2024 Historical Dagger. Alis is a founder member of Welsh crime writers’
collective Crime Cymru and was the inaugural chair of Wales’ only crime writing festival, Crime Cymru Festival.

Clare Mackintosh is a former police officer and the multi-award-winning author of eight bestselling novels. Her books have sold more than three million copies and been translated into 40 languages, collectively spending more than 65 weeks in The Sunday Times top ten. Her latest series, featuring DC Ffion Morgan, is set on the border between North Wales and Cheshire.

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Tickets are just £8 and are available from

Ledbury Books and Maps (from the shop, 01531 633226 or online)