Joining the 2023 Chair Vaseem Khan, and special guests including Lisa Jewell, Ruth Ware, Ann Cleeves, Jeffery Deaver, Val McDermid and Lee Child, the full programme features some of the biggest names in crime fiction, such as Elly Griffiths, Janice Hallett, Imran Mahmood, Dorothy Koomson and Steve Cavanagh. Screen stars Richard Armitage, Rob Rinder and Lucy Worsley will also be joining the Festival for the first time to discuss their respective crime and thriller books.

A crimewave is headed to Bristol as CrimeFest sees more than 150 authors take part in the crime fiction convention this May.