The
finalists for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel 2012 were announced
this week and The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival will offer the
chance for avid fans and readers to get close to some of them.
Paul
Cleave, Ben Sanders, Neil Cross and Vanda Symon (left) were all named as finalists for
the award, which is
made annually for the best crime, mystery or thriller novel written by a New
Zealand citizen or resident.
The winner will be announced at
the festival, following ‘The Great New Zealand Crime Debate’, in which Vanda
Symon is taking part, alongside debaters who include Lianne Dalziel,
Christchurch MP and lawyer, QC and writer Chris McVeigh and Michael
Robotham, Australian crime author and two times winner of the Ned Kelly
Award.
Ben Sanders (right) will join
internationally successful Christchurch crime writer Paul Cleave, talented New
Zealand novelist Julian Novitz and Michael Robotham to talk about the
attraction of evil and the literary world’s attitude to thrillers and detective
fiction in ‘Fatal Attraction’.
Unfortunately Neil Cross will be
unavailable for this session owing to the filming of the third series of his
multi-award winning BBC psychological crime drama, Luther.
The
festival’s crime focus continues with Joanne Drayton talking about her
remarkable new biography, The Search for Anne Perry, for which she
gained unprecedented access to the woman better known in New Zealand as teenage
killer Juliet Hulme.
Festival
director Marianne Hargreaves said, ‘We’re very excited to be hosting writers of
this calibre and confident that these events will be extremely well attended.’
The
festival will run for four days from 30 August to 2 September based in the Geo
Dome at Hagley Park and tickets are priced at just $16. Tickets are on sale
now. For the full programme and details, visit http://chchwritersfest.co.nz.
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