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WHSmith signing – Hamilton

Mason Cross, author of the Richard and Judy Book Club selection The Samaritan will be appearing at WHSmith to sign copies of his novels.

Drop by anytime between noon and 3pm for a chat and the chance to read your next favourite thriller!

Find out more at the WHSmith Events Blog.

 

Encounters Festival

Following the release of his debut novel, ‘The Killing Season’, Mason Cross arrived on the crime fiction scene with a bang. Not every debut novel is described by Lee Child as ‘my kind of book’, but Mason  achieved it.

If that success wasn’t enough, the follow-up title, ‘The Samaritan’, continued the meteoric rise of main character Carter Blake, when it was included in the Richard and Judy Spring Books List this year. Fans of Mason Cross and his character Carter Blake didn’t have to wait long for more action packed pages with the release of the third part of the series, ‘The Time To Kill’, in May this year. Come along and hear this rising star of the Scottish crime fiction scene talk about his dark art.

To book your place, please call 01236 856444.

East Kilbride Central Library

Mason Cross will be appearing at East Kilbride Central Library to talk about writing and his novels The Killing Season, The Samaritan, The Time to Kill and his latest, Don’t Look For Me. There will be a talk, a Q&A and a signing.
Contact the library on 01355 220046 for tickets.

East Kilbride Central Library

As part of Scottish Book Week, Mason Cross will be appearing at East Kilbride Central Library to talk about writing and his novels The Killing Season, The Samaritan and his latest, The Time to Kill. There will be a talk, a Q&A and a signing.
Free event – contact the library on 01355 220046 for more details.

Oxfam Bookshop – Merchant City Glasgow

Mason Cross will be appearing at Oxfam Merchant City to talk about writing and his novels The Killing Season, The Samaritan and his latest, The Time to Kill. There will be a talk, a Q&A and a signing.

Free event – contact the shop on 0141 248 9176 for more details.

Bookpoint Dunoon

Mason Cross will be appearing at Bookpoint to talk about writing and his novels The Killing Season, The Samaritan and his latest, The Time to Kill. There will be a talk, a Q&A and a signing.

Contact Bookpoint  for more details.

Hillhouse Library

Mason Cross will be appearing at Hillhouse Library to talk about writing and his novels The Killing Season, The Samaritan and his latest, The Time to Kill. There will be a talk, a Q&A and a signing.

Free event – contact the library on 01698 710400 for more details.

 

 

Cambuslang Library

Mason Cross will be appearing at Cambuslang Library to talk about writing and his novels The Killing Season, The Samaritan and his latest, The Time to Kill. There will be a talk, a Q&A and a signing.

Free event – contact the library on 0141 584 2530 for more details.

Bloody Scotland

(Not) Born in the USA

Despite being two Scots and a Northern Irishman, G. J. Brown, Steve Cavanagh and Mason Cross chose to set their crime novels in the good old US of A. Their pacy, high-octane thrillers are straight off the Hollywood playbook but have they really earned their stars and stripes? California-based Scot Catriona McPherson will find out if they can tell their APB from their BOLO.

Tickets £7.50/£6.50, available from the festival website.

ScotLitFest – Collaborative Crime Creation

On Sunday 26th June #scotlitfest will be hosting the Collaborative Crime Creation on Twitter. We hope it’ll be like nothing Scottish crime fans have seen before.
We’ve asked a number of Scotland’s best crime writers to spare 15 minutes of their time to contribute to a collaborative piece of crime writing which will be created live on Twitter. To give our writers something to work with ScotLitFest will ask the public to name the protagonist, decide where in Scotland the story will begin and what the crime will be. From there it’s all up to the writers…
Louise Welsh will be kicking off the creation at 12pm on the Sunday and begin the story with the #SLFcrime hashtag. After 15 minutes she will stop and the next crime writer will pick up the story where she left off. After their 15 minutes of live writing on Twitter, the next writer will pick it up and so on until we have a full (and no doubt interesting!) piece of crime writing.
If you can’t follow the whole thing on Twitter during the day do not worry! We will be gathering all the tweets together and making them into a free ebook so you can read the piece in its entirety.
The first confirmed participants are…
Louise Welsh | Mason Cross | Douglas Skelton | Lesley Kelly
All #ScotLitFest events are free to ‘attend’, all you need is an internet connection and you can join us! Sign up on Eventbrite for the latest information straight to your email.