Join a group of award-winning, nationally-acclaimed writers as they host a special event at a North Tyneside customer first centre.
Best-selling authors Rachel Abbott, Mel McGrath and Kate Rhodes will be at Whitley Bay Customer First Centre at 6.30pm on Thursday 3 May to discuss their works and inspirations.
Rachel Abbott is the UK’s no.1 indie author and has sold nearly 3 million copies of her books. Born and raised in Manchester, her debut novel Only the Innocent, topped the Kindle charts for four weeks, with all of her thrillers since then also reaching the top spot on the charts.
Rachel is famous for cleverly plotted and intensely unnerving psychological thrillers, her seventh book Come a Little Closer is the tense and creepy story of entrapment and the struggle for the truth. Abbott’s much-loved detective, Tom Douglas, must race to uncover the reason behind a suspicious death before more missing women follow in her footsteps. This is her darkest and most disturbing story yet and early reviews for her newest book have been excellent.
Mel McGrath, cofounder of Killer Women, and an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction, writes the acclaimed Edie Kiglatuk series of Arctic mysteries, White Heat, The Boy in the Snow and The Boneseeker, twice longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and picked as Times and Financial Times thrillers of the year. She also wrote the critically acclaimed and bestselling family memoir Silvertown, as well as the psychological thriller Give Me The Child.
Mel has been a documentary TV producer for Channel Four and presenter of Trailblazers for The Discovery Channel. She won the John Llewellyn-Rhys-Mail on Sunday award for Best British writer under 35 for her first book, Motel Nirvana.
Kate Rhodes, a crime novelist and award winning poet, had her first novel published in June 2012. The novel is the first in the acclaimed Alice Quentin series featuring a London-based forensic psychologist.
Kate studied English at university, and went on to teach in colleges and universities in the UK and the US, before focusing on her writing. Kate has just launched Hell Bay, the first book in a new series of thrillers featuring Ben Kito, ‘gripping, clever and impossible to put down’.
Tickets for the event are £3 and for further information or to book your place, contact (0191) 643 5390 or emailLibrary.events@northtyneside.gov.uk.
Books will also be on sale on the night, with opportunities to have them signed by the authors.