The Queen of Mystery by Ann Cleeves @AnnCleeves (Shetland, Vera) BBC Radio 4 Sunday 19:45

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The Crime Writer at the Festival

The Queen of Mystery

The Crime Writer at the Festival

In the month that thousands of fiction fans head to Yorkshire for the Harrogate Crime Festival, this new short story series celebrates the very particular atmosphere of such festivals. It's often said that there is something different about crime writers - they flock together, they enjoy each other's company and freely interact with their fans. Over the next four Sunday evenings, festival stalwarts Ann Cleeves, Sarah Hilary, Val McDermid and David Mark, will take us to events real and imagined in four original stories that will charm and intrigue.

In this first story, Ann Cleeves (bestselling author of the Vera and Shetland crime novel series) takes us to Malice Domestic in Bethesda, Maryland - an annual crime convention for lovers of the traditional mystery novel. Her character, Stella Monkhouse, known to her fans as the "Queen of Mystery", is an award-winning crime writer who is struggling to come to terms with the fact that her literary star is beginning to wane...

Read by Joanna Tope.

Written by Ann Cleeves.

Produced by Kirsteen Cameron

Credits

Role	Contributor
Reader	Joanna Tope
Writer	Ann Cleeves
Producer	Kirsteen Cameron

Broadcast

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  Sun 10 Jul 2016 19:45

  BBC Radio 4