NCRM Noir at the Bar
CWA Noir at the Bar - Thursday 31st May 2025 6-30 p.m
We’re honoured to be chosen as this year’s location for the launch of June’s National Crime Reading Month, run by the Crime Writers’ Association in partnership with national charity The Reading Agency. NCRM is a festival that takes place throughout June across the UK and Ireland, culminating in the prestigious CWA Daggers ceremony at the end of the month.
Noir at the Bar will be a fun, relaxed event that we're delighted to be hosting - each author will be briefly talking about their latest book before chatting with attendees and signing copies.
The Prize for the CWA and The Margery Allingham Prize for best short mystery fiction will be another highlight of the evening, with the winning entry being announced. The CWA and the Margery Allingham Society's short fiction contest for short stories that satisfy Golden Age crime writer Margery Allingham's definition of a mystery has run every year since 2014.
It’s going to be a great evening - with an author line-up comprising BONNIE MacBIRD, LINDA MATHER, VICTORIA DOWD, RORY CLEMENTS, FIONA VEITCH-SMITH and JAMIE WEST.
Tickets are free but booking is essential. Please email info@bodiesinthebookshop.co.uk to book
Christina Koning - Murder in Oxford
We’re excited to be holding the launch event for Christina Koning’s latest episode in her Blind Detective series. The evening promises to be full of intrigue and fascination as we peek behind the curtain into the seedy and dangerous world of Frederick Rowlands’ detective persona and find out how Christina builds his landscape – and what awaits him this time out!
Murder in Oxford is the eagerly-awaited 9th instalment in this fabulous series and we are celebrating its release.
When: Thursday May 22nd 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
Murder in Oxford
1942. When Frederick Rowlands arrives in the city in answer to an urgent summons, he finds that the effects of war have not bypassed Oxford, which feels more like a military camp than a university town. His old
friend and fellow war veteran, Major Ian Fraser, has been told that there is a spy at large in the university and at nearby Blenheim Palace, the heart of British Intelligence. Rowlands swiftly becomes
embroiled in matters involving MI5 and enemy agents, but not before a
vicious killer strikes.
Now the race is on to find the murderer before he — or she — can kill again, and to prevent vital plans for a covert British mission being compromised. For Rowlands, the stakes could not be higher, as a deadly game of cat and mouse plays out…