Links
Members of Dead East:
Sean Enright
Charlie Flowers
PN Johnson
Resources for crime and mystery readers:
The Crime Writers’ Association’s newsletters for readers: Case Files and CWA Readers’ News
Resources for crime and mystery writers:
Nick Guthrie’s annotated list of short crime fiction markets
Crime events:
31 January 2026 Stockport Noir
17-22 February 2026 Granite Noir, Aberdeen
6-8 February 2026 Bloody Barnes Literary Festival
7-8 February 2026 Cheshire Crime Writers Festival
28 February 2026 Bay Tales, Whitley Bay
28 March 2026 Anglesey Crime Writing Festival
19 April 2026 Warrington Crime Festival
1-3 May 2026 Crime and Thriller Weekend, Cromarty
13 May 2026 Noir at the Bar, Sunderland
29-30 May 2026 Heart of Stone Crime Writing Festival, Stonehaven
11-14 June 2026 Shetland Noir
June 2026 ?? Slaughter in Southwold: Southwold Library Crime Writers Festival
18-20 June 2026 Capital Crime, London
23-26 July 2026 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate
August 2026 Bute Noir
18-20 September 2026 Bloody Scotland, Stirling
26 September 2026 Coastal Crime, Southampton
25-27 September 2026 Preston Crime Fiction Festival
3 October 2026 Chiltern Kills
October 2026?? Moffatt Crime Fest
16-18 October 2026 Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival
October 2026?? Death in the Dales, Sedbergh
October 2026?? Bloodshed Crime Festival, Swindon
October 2026?? Only Murders in the Library, Basingstoke
November 2026?? Crime at the Coast, Torquay
December 2026?? Newcastle 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.
Cambridgeshire
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
Essex
The Book Nook, Tollesbury
Caxton Books, Frinton-on-Sea
Chicken and Frog Bookshop, Brentwood
Between The Lines, Great Bardfield
Harts Books, Saffron Walden
Jacqson Diego Story Emporium, Westcliff-on-Sea
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
Suffolk
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
Norfolk
The Book Hive
53 London Street, Norwich NR2 1HL
Kett’s Books
Whartons Court, Wymondham