This year’s event, on June 17 and 18, will take place at Southwold Arts Centre – a week ahead of the town’s fourth annual arts festival.

East Anglian Daily Times: Author Ruth Dugdall pictured at home in Felixstowe. Picture: PHIL MORLEYAuthor Ruth Dugdall pictured at home in Felixstowe. Picture: PHIL MORLEY (Image: Archant)

Visiting authors include Elly Griffiths; Silent Witness writer M.J. Arlidge; Isabelle Grey, whose credits include Midsomer Murders; Harry Brett; Guy Fraser-Sampson and Paul Harrison, along with Suffolk’s John Nightingale and Ruth Dugdall.

Southwold Library manager Charlotte Clark, organising the event with support from the Friends of Southwold Library and the Crime Writers’ Association, said: “We never envisaged in 2013, when we started with one day in the scout hut, that in 2017 we would have a whole weekend revelling in meeting established and up-and-coming crime writers.”

Find full details at suffolklibraries.co.uk/slaughter. Tickets can also be bought at Southwold Library.