Eagerly anticipating the Tweet Pitch event tomorrow #xponorth

THE EBONY DETECTIVE. Historical crime fabulation of the legend. Stirling c1500. A young Elesbeth Bathory is imprisoned for murdering fifty virgins. Her Moorish handmaiden hires Scotland’s first detective to help prove a deranged priest obsessed with Elsebeth is guilty. #xponorth

HELTER SWELTER the first in a spy/police crossover series (Charles Cumming Box88 vs Mick Herron Slow Horses). DI Isabel Church investigates an inexplicable death she believes is murder. This brings her into conflict with a deliciously twisted suspect – an undercover spy #xponorth

ENTER FROM THE DARK. A Catholic priest obsessed with an unattainable young woman commits unspeakably twisted crimes in Scotland c1500. Who has the wit and will to bring a man protected by the cloth to justice? Enter Scotland’s first detective – a Moorish woman #xponorth

THE DEATH OF LOLA JONES Police procedural novel lays foundation for a spy/police crossover series (Cumming's Box88 meets Herron's Slow Horses). Met DI Isabel Church investigates an unexplained death. She suspects murder but her prime suspect is an unpredictable MI6 spy #xponorth

MURDERS & ACQUISITIONS second novel in Church vs Radley spy crime series. DI Isabel Church, fired from the Met, is recruited into a MI6 unit led by her nemesis. Church and her team are trained as covert operatives but as they are inclined to abide by the law chaos rules #xponorth

THE EBONY DETECTIVE. Is it possible to write the "true" story of a legend? To reveal the real Elsebeth Bathory was a young woman in 16th century Stirling unjustly accused of drinking blood? Did her Moorish handmaiden become Scotland's first detective? Read this novel #xponorth

Do you know the answer?  Sunday mornings bring tea and biscuits in bed - and gentle contemplation.  My question today is - which sub-genre of crime fiction is trending with publishers and agents?

An absolute gem of an evening! Ever witty Mark Billingham interviewed the gracious, gorgeous Helen S Fields about Profile K. My (rather noisy) guests, who'd never been to a book signing, said it was one of the best events they'd ever attended. It deserved an audience of 100s!

Couldnt be at #Glastonbury so we supported Mark Billingham and the FunLovinCrimeWriters vicariously from Greece