Orion's immersive The Incident Room returns to Harrogate with Vaseem Khan and Julian Clary

Orion’s immersive events space, The Incident Room, will be returning to Harrogate on Friday 19th July 2024 and run alongside the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival’s main programme. 

Returning for its eighth year, the space will deliver exclusive events for festival attendees including a celebration of the publication of Murder in Harrogate, a collection of crime short stories edited by Vaseem Khan, publishing with Orion in July. There will also be an Agatha Christie quiz, a live Crime Writers Room and an in-conversation event with Julian Clary about his crime fiction debut Curtain Call to Murder. The line-up will also include M J  Arlidge, Julia Crouch, Steph Broadribb, Vaseem Khan, Elly Griffiths, Ruth Ware, M W Craven and Mark Billingham alongside other Orion authors.

Following from last year’s fundraising efforts, tickets to The Incident Room will again be priced at £3 per person with all proceeds going to Harrogate International Festivals educational programmes.

Orion will also provide a limited Harrogate at Home exclusive package for those unable to attend The Incident Room in-person. Leanne Oliver, publicity director, said: “We are delighted to be collaborating with the brilliant team at the Harrogate International Crime Festival again on the Orion Incident Room.

"Over the past seven years the Orion Incident Room has showcased many of Orion’s debuts including Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell, Complicit by Winnie Li and Ragdoll by Daniel Cole; as well as featuring beloved authors such as Sir Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, Mari Hannah, Chris Whitaker and more. We look forward to welcoming more readers to this year’s event." 

Clement Roux, festival manager, said: “As we prepare to welcome our visitors to the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival next month, we’re excited to see both long-time attendees, some of whom have been with us since our first festival in 2003, and many new faces.

“This year, we’re showcasing a festival that’s bigger and better than ever! We are particularly thrilled to feature the Murder in Harrogate panel as part of the Orion Incident Room, with five of the writers featured in the anthology commissioned to celebrate two decades of the Festival. We are truly ready for the hottest weekend in the crime fiction calendar." 

Tickets to The Incident Room will go on sale at 12pm today (Monday 17th June 2024). More can be found out here.