Admission is free but booking a ticket is advisable
Blood in t'Dales
Tuesday 10th June, 2pm
To celebrate Crime Reading Month in June, The Garden Rooms at Tennants are pleased to announce our first Crime Panel Event!
The three Yorkshire based authors will come together to discuss their books and give short readings of their work followed by a Q+A session.
Each of the authors will have books to sell and sign during a meet and greet afterwards.
Timings
Event begins - 2pm
Event ends (approx) - 4pm
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Barry N Rainsford
Author of:
- All the Dead Men Lie
- Hollow - Who Put Bella in the Wych-Elm?
Born in Birmingham and now resident in North Yorkshire, Barry turned to crime writing because he saw it offering the opportunity to create compelling narratives that draw the audience in whilst being able to engage with wider ideas beyond just the consideration of 'cops and robbers' or even 'right and wrong'. For him the genre provides the possibility to consider many of the issues he feels strongly about, issues that arise from his roots and from his experiences teaching in difficult, deprived areas of a major city.
Set in the social and political turmoil of the 1984 miner’s strike, the debut novel ALL THE DEAD MEN LIE tackles such themes head on. Having lived for much of his life in and around the Staffordshire mining communities where the novel is set, he sees the time he lived through as pivotal in defining the modern world – the mistrust of police, the undermining of authority figures and the destruction of local communities and the industries that sustained them. The novel attempts to reveal a time and events that tore the social fabric of Britain.
In much the same way, the novel Hollow-Who Put Bella in the Wych-Elm? tackles themes of justice, truth, and corruption but this time set during World War 2. The novel is a fictionalised version of the events surrounding the discovery of the remains of a murdered young woman inside the hollow of a tree in Hagley Wood. Based on access to police files, the novel explores the social fabric of the era and how this impacted on the police search to discover the identity of the dead woman and her killers. The case remains unsolved and the identity of the young woman remains unknown. Meanwhile, the legends and the myths surrounding the case continue to grow...
Catherine Yaffe
Author of:
- DI ‘Ziggy’ Thorne 5-part series: The Shadow Killer (5); Catch Me Twice(4); When We Deceive (3); The Web They Wove (2); The Lie She Told (1)
Catherine Yaffe is the author of crime thrillers that readers and reviewers frequently describe as compulsively readable. A graduate of Curtis Brown Creative academy, Catherine wrote her first crime thriller, The Lie She Told in 2020 whilst the UK was in Lockdown.
Cat is fascinated with how people’s minds work, and why they make the decisions they do - particularly criminals! In each of her books she aims to make the reader suspect everyone, trust no one and question everything, including those closest to them.
Cat lives in Yorkshire with her husband and two cats (with the occasional visit from her grandpuppy Milo.)
L K Pang
Author of:
- Moat Hill Hall
- The Night Counsellor
L K Pang is a writer whose works are deeply influenced by the gothic classics of Jane Eyre, Rebecca, and Wuthering Heights. She made her debut in 2023 with Moat Hill Hall, a romantic thriller published by Chronos Publishing. It was during this debut that she discovered her passion for exploring the darker corners of the human psyche.
In 2024, she released The Night Counsellor, a gripping 1950s thriller set in a mental hospital in West Yorkshire, which further solidified her love for psychological suspense.
Formerly an architect, L K Pang now dedicates her time to writing, painting, and caring for her family in North Yorkshire, where the haunting landscapes often inspire her creative work.