Magna cum Murder

Crime Writing Festival

in association with

CrimeFest

October 24-26, 2014 

The Columbia Club, Indianapolis, IN
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CRIMEFEST is thrilled with its new association with Magna cum Murder. Having organized the one-off visit of the American Left Coast Crime convention to the UK in 2006, Myles Allfrey, Donna Moore and Adrian Muller created CRIMEFEST to ensure that there continued to be a British event where readers and writers from around the world could socialize and celebrate crime fiction. A further aim was to promote and increase the general readership of the genre. A collaboration with a well-established and highly respected festival like Magna cum Murder is a perfect way to achieve these aims.

 

Whilst benefiting from Magna cum Murder's experience, CRIMEFEST will reciprocate by providing its own expertise in certain areas. We hope this will be the perfect match to discover, rediscover and celebrate the authors and community that make us love crime fiction as much as we do.

Cheers,

Adrian 

Guest of Honor -- John Gilstrap

John Gilstrap is The New York Times bestselling author of ten thrillers, including High Treason (August, 2013), Damage Control, Threat Warning, Hostage Zero, No Mercy, Six Minutes to Freedom (nonfiction),  Scott Free, Even Steven, At All Costs, and Nathan's Run.  Four of the books were Literary Guild selections. His novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. John has also adapted four bestselling novels for the big screen: Red Dragon (uncredited from the Thomas Harris novel, for Dino DeLaurentiis Productions), Word of Honor (from the Nelson DeMille novel, for Dino DeLaurentiis Productions); Young Men and Fire (from the Norman Maclean book, for Baltimore/Spring Creek Pictures/Warner Brothers); and Nathan's Run (from his own novel, also for Warner Brothers). He is currently signed to write the screen adaptation for Six Minutes to Freedom for Sesso Entertainment. A former firefighter and EMT, John holds a master's degree in safety engineering from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree in history from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Threat Warning was a nominee for the 2012 International Thriller Awards in the Best Paperback Original category!
  • "Gilstrap will leave you breathless."-- Harlan Coben
  • "Gilstrap pushes every thriller button."-- San Francisco Chronicle
  • "Rocket-paced suspense."-- Jeffery Deaver
  • "A great hero, a really exciting series."-- Joseph Finder
International Guest of Honor -- Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson is a British crime-writer currently residing in  Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in  English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set in and around Benin, West Africa, and the Javier Falcón series, set largely in Seville, Spain. He is also the author of the espionage novel The Company of Strangers and A Small Death In Lisbon, which consists of a historically split narrative, and won the CWA Gold Dagger in 1999. He was shortlisted for the same award again in 2003 for The Blind Man of Seville, the first in the Javier Falcón series. The second novel in the series, The Silent and the Damned (titled: The Vanished Hands in the U.S.), won the 2006 Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel, presented by Mystery Ink. The Javier Falcon series has been made for Sky  television by Mammoth Screen titled Falcón with Marton Csokas in the title role.

 

Capital Punishment, the first Charlie Boxer novel, was short-listed for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award in 2013 by the British Crime Writers Association. You Will Never Find Me, the second novel in the series, will be released in March 2014.

  • "Like most of Wilson's novels, this one occupies the shadow territory between the crime novel and the intelligent thriller... it's dark and powerful stuff. And the ending has a kick like a horse." -- Andrew Taylor, The Spectator
  • "Fast-moving and breathlessly exciting, this is the first of a series to feature Charles Boxer from award-winning author Robert Wilson." -- Myles McWeeney, Irish Independent
  • "Gripping from start to finish, this intricately plotted page-turner will keep you transfixed." -- Choice
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October 24-26, 2014

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