I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be taking part in BritCrime – an exciting new online crime festival for fans of crime and thrillers. BritCrime was dreamed up by crime writer Helen Smith who ‘founded BritCrime to provide free, accessible events that every reader can attend, wherever they live.’

From 11th to the 13th July over 40 crime authors including Sarah Hilary, Alex Marwood, Mason Cross, Clare Mackintosh and Eva Dolan will be taking part in events on Facebook and Twitter and you can get involved by asking questions in the Q&As, joining the authors in the virtual ‘late night bar’ and taking part in giveaways.

In the run up to the festival you can purchase discounted books on the Special Offers page of the website and sign up to the newsletter. One lucky subscriber will win a Kindle Paperwhite.

You can follow BritCrime on Twitter and the festival has a Facebook page too.

To any bloggers or press who’d like help publicise the event there’s a press release on the BritCrime website.

Hopefully I’ll see some of you at an event or in the bar in July! It’s going to be a lot of fun.