Crime fiction goes to the seaside
In February, we took a trip back home to the North-east to attend a brilliant new crime fiction event organised by the duo who brought us so much fun with Virtual Noir at the Bar. Now working as Bay Tales, writers Vic Watson and Simon Bewick put together the first Bay Tales live event at Whitley Bay playhouse. It featured an array of crime fiction authors with publisher-led panels, and the variety of authors appearing showed just how varied the genre and all its sub-genre off