Links

Members of Dead East:

Resources for crime and mystery readers:

Resources for crime and mystery writers:

Crime events:

12-14 September 2025 Bloody Scotland, Stirling
4 October 2025 Chiltern Kills
4 October 2025 Moffatt Crime Fest
17 October 2025 Murder One, Ireland's International Crime Writing Festival
17-19 October 2025 Death in the Dales, Sedbergh
17-19 October 2025 Bloodshed Crime Festival, Swindon
1-6 December 2025 Newcastle Noir
February 2026 Granite Noir, Aberdeen
28 February 2026 Bay Tales, Whitley Bay
19 April 2026 Warrington Crime Festival
1-3 May 2026 Crime and Thriller Weekend, Cromarty
11-14 June 2026 Shetland Noir
18-20 June 2026 Capital Crime, London
23-26 July 2026 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate
August 2026 Bute Noir
irregular Noir at the Bar, Edinburgh
irregular Hull Noir

Bookshops

We haven’t visited all of these shops, but as far as we know they are all independent stockists of new fiction based in the East Anglia region.

Bodies in the Bookshop
1A Botolph Lane, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3RD

Topping and Company, Ely
Topping & Company Booksellers of Ely, 9 High Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4NB

The Book Nook, Tollesbury

Caxton Books, Frinton-on-Sea

Harts Books, Saffron Walden

The Nose, Walton-on-the-Naze

Read on Sea, Leigh-on-Sea

Red Lion Books
125 High St, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1SZ

Wivenhoe Bookshop
23 High Street, Wivenhoe, Essex, CO7 9BE

The Aldeburgh Bookshop
42 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5AB

Dial Lane Books
8 Dial Lane, Ipswich IP1 1DL

Halesworth Bookshop
42 Thoroughfare, Halesworth IP19 8AR

Harris & Harris
3a High Street, Clare CO10 8NY

Stillwater Books
36 Hamilton Road, Felixstowe IP11 7AN

The Book Hive
53 London Street, Norwich NR2 1HL

Kett’s Books
Whartons Court, Wymondham