Author event with James Henry

Join us for an author event at Stowmarket Library with thriller novelist James Henry, as part of our Skulduggery in Stowmarket Crime Fiction Festival! James will be talking to us about his career so far and his new thriller set in Essex, The Winter Visitor.

Tickets are £5.00 each, or £15.00 for an all-day ticket. Price includes refreshments.

About James Henry:

James Henry is the pen name for James Gurbutt. He has written four prequels to R.D Wingfield's Frost series, and three Essex-based novels featuring DI Nick Lowry, including Blackwater, Yellowhammer and Whitethroat. He works in publishing and lives in Essex.

About The Winter Visitor:

Essex, February, 1991. The weather is biting cold. Everyone would rather be somewhere warmer, which is why it's a big surprise when a wanted drug smuggler, Bruce Hopkins, risks a return to his old haunts in Colchester after a decade long exile on the Costa del Sol. Lured back by a letter from the wife Hopkins left behind, no one is more surprised than him when he finds himself abducted and stripped bare only to be sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The police wonder if it could be retaliation from a Spanish gang, sending a warning to their English counterparts?

DS Daniel Kenton is teamed up with the unorthodox DS Brazier to investigate a crime wave which takes in not only the murder of an expat dope smuggler, but a sophisticated arson attack on a Norman church and the unexpected suicide of an ageing florist. Could there possibly be a thread that connects them?