Lit Fest Crime Night: KICK-ASS FEMALE PROTAGONISTS

As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival Truman Books three crime-focussed author events in one sitting

3pm  – Cosy Crime with Josie Lloyd, JM Hall and Antony Johnston

5pm – Creating Kick-Ass Female Protagonists with Saima Mir and Lesley McEvoy

7pm – In conversation with Elly Griffiths

There are a number of ticket options with discounts if attending multiple author events on the day - please select the appropriate ticket for the sessions you want to attend.

Saima Mir has written for The Times, the Guardian and the Independent. Her debut novel, The Khan, was a Times Bestseller, a Guardian best crime and thriller and a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Her essay for It’s Not About The Burqa (Picador) appeared in Guardian Weekend and received over 250,000 hits online in two days. She contributed to the anthology The Best, Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood. Saima grew up in Bradford, where she worked as a rookie crime reporter and now lives in London. Vengeance is her second novel.

Lesley McEvoy was born and bred in Yorkshire and has had a passion for writing in one form or another all her life. The writing took a backseat as Lesley developed her career as a Behavioural Analyst / Profiler and Psychotherapist – setting up her own Consultancy business and therapy practice. She has written and presented extensively around the world for over 25 years specialising in behavioural profiling and training, with a wide variety of organisations. The corporate world provided unexpected sources of writing material when, as Lesley said – she found more psychopaths in business than in prison! Lesley’s work in some of the UK’s toughest prisons was where she met people whose lives had been characterised by drugs and violence and whose experiences informed the themes she now writes about. Lesley published her successful debut novel The Murder Mile in 2019 and has not stopped since.