Events

At Bodies we plan to have regular events throughout the year, ranging from author signings and book launches to Crime Crackers and other book clubs, culminating in an annual party in autumn, Crime and Nourishment, featuring 8-10 authors speaking, meeting and greeting readers and fans with everyone enjoying tea and cake! Watch this space for news of what’s happening first and how to join in!

Kate Rhodes & Christina Koning

Join us as we celebrate two new books from favourite local authors Kate Rhodes and Christina Koning in conversation. A fun evening is promised where both will be chatting about their latest forays into the contemporary and vintage seedy underbellies. Hopefully also shedding light on their methods and influences these two brilliant writers are sure to be entertaining and informative.  Do come along and join us for a great evening!

When: Thursday 21st November 2024, 6.30pm

Where: St Botolph’s Church, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RG

How much: Free – ticket holders only.

RSVP: in person at Bodies in the Bookshop or by email to info@bodiesinthebookshop.co.uk

Kate Rhodes is a bestselling British crime writer, known for her Alice Quentin London crime thrillers but is most famous for her acclaimed ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES, which have been optioned for TV. Her books have been nominated for the Crime Novel of the Year award, and the Library Dagger award. Her latest, The Stalker is a nail-biting, stand-alone novel set in her now-home town of Cambridge.

Christina Koning is an award-winning author, whose second novel, Undiscovered Country (1997), won the Encore Award and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. Her published work includes five works of literary fiction as well as her crime fiction which includes the Blind Detective series, set between the late 1920s and 1940s, and featuring a blinded veteran of the First World War, Frederick Rowlands, as the sleuth. Murder at Bletchley Park is the eagerly-awaited 8th instalment in this fabulous series and we are celebrating its release in paperback.

Susan Grossey

We’re delighted to be helping local author Susan Grossey launch the second in her thrilling Gregory Hardiman Mysteries series. Join us for an evening of fascinating insight into financial impropriety and other criminal misdeeds in Regency Cambridge!

When: Thursday 5th December 2024, 6.30pm

Where: Bodies in the Bookshop

How much: Free – ticket holders only.

RSVP: in person at Bodies in the Bookshop or by email to info@bodiesinthebookshop.co.uk

Susan Grossey is the author of the Sam Plank Mysteries – seven historical crime novels set in London in the 1820s but is now working on the Cambridge Hardiman Mysteries series: five novels set in her home town of Cambridge, again in the 1820s (but more provincial and old-fashioned than the great metropolis). The first in this series – Ostler – was published in 2023 and the second – Sizar – has now arrived!

In the spring of 1826, ex-soldier Gregory Hardiman is settling in to civilian life as an ostler and university constable in Cambridge. When an undergraduate is found hanged in his rooms at St Clement’s College, the Master asks Gregory to find out what could have driven the seemingly happy young man to take such a drastic step. A second death at the same college suggests something altogether more sinister, and Gregory sets out to discover whether a love of illegal gambling on horse races could lie at the heart of the tragedies.
In the second of the Cambridge Hardiman Mysteries, Gregory finds himself on shifting sands – torn between family ties in Spain and the possibility of new affections in Cambridge.

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