'Love & Crime' at St Hilda's Crime and Mystery Weekend

The 22nd Mystery & Crime Weekend at 

St Hilda’s College, Oxford, 14th-16th August 2015

This year’s conference is dedicated to the 

memory of P.D. James

Ann Cleeves is our Conference Guest of Honour and

Andrew Taylor will be chairing the conference

Friday 14th August

6.45pm RECEPTION

7.30pm THE CONFERENCE DINNER

Speaker: Simon Brett

Saturday 15th August

8.00 - 9.00am BREAKFAST

9.10am Welcome: Kate Charles

9.20 – 10.50am 

Ayo Onatade

Crimes of Passion: Detecting Couples – the Light and Dark Side of Love & Crime

Alison Joseph

'Heavier than broken hearts': the romance of the lone detective

10.50 - 11.20am COFFEE BREAK

11.20 - 12.50pm 

Natasha Cooper

The Dark Side of Love

Len Tyler

Revenge: When it all turns sour

Saturday 16th August 

12.50 - 1.50pm LUNCH

2.00 - 3.30pm 

Ann Granger

Reader, I murdered him

Nicola Upson

Devices and Desires: the tangent of love in English crime fiction

3.30 – 4.00pm TEA BREAK

4.10 - 5.40pm 

Val McDermid

Love: the perfect motive for murder

Frances Fyfield

The Usefulness of Hatred

5.45 – 6.30pm SIGNING SESSION FOR ALL AUTHORS

7.15pm DRINKS: followed by the DINNER at 7.45pm

Speaker: Alan Bradley

Sunday 16th August

8.30 - 9.30am BREAKFAST

9.15 - 11.15am Free Time: Punting, Church, Bookstore, Walks, Relax!

11.20 - 11.50am COFFEE

11. 50 - 12.50pm Conference Lecture by our Guest of Honour: Ann Cleeves

Love in Amsterdam: Nicholas Freeling, Sex and Sentimentality

1.00 - 2.10pm LUNCH

2.15 – 3.45pm 

Tom Harper

Love of Money: The Root of all Evil

Jo Hines

Deadlier than the Mother?

3.45pm CLOSING REMARKS

4.00pm TEA

THE BOOKSTORE

The bookstore, provided by Blackwell’s, situated in the Foyer of the JdP Building, will be open continuously throughout the weekend. They aim to have as many of the speakers’ books as possible and of the other crime-writers attending the conference.