All most set for Sandwell

Next Thursday the 2nd of November at two in the afternoon, I will be taking part in my first live panel in person with three of the countries most intriguing writers at Sandwell Literature Festival, covering both historical and modern Asian culture, with A. A. Dhand, Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee.



Although I have done panels before and spoken about my book on my own, this will be a new challenge for me that I am really looking forward to. And, with each of their books being so different it will be a really interesting conversation.



Now having read all of Abir’s books, all of Vaseem’s Persis Wadia series and with only one more Harry Virdee book left to go, this will be the most prepared I will be for anything I have ever done.



With the Virdee series having such a complexed religious background to it and a family relationship which sticks out ahead of the majority of crime books I have read, this twisty series got even more impressive with the plot in City of Sinners.



When a woman is found hanging with barbed wire in Waterstones Bradford you know that this story is going to be disturbing. But, the angle in which it then goes takes an even stranger twist and I will always be thankful that I am not allergic to anything myself.



As Harry uncovers what happened to the poor woman after the shock find at the autopsy I was able to read this book in just over three days, with most of Friday being glued to the audio book.



I am really looking forward to where the latest book in the series will go and lucky that I have time to read it before the panel which I really didn’t think I would be able to do.



Congratulations on the TV adaptation too for A.A. Dhand. I hope that anyone who hasn’t read the series yet will enjoy it as much as I have.