Author Events 2026

Jess Kidd
Crime and Wine
at The Little Ripon Bookshop
7pm 19th May 2026
SOLD OUT

We are thrilled to be welcoming Jess Kidd again to Ripon to tell us about the second outing for Nun turned sleuth, Nora Breen in Murder at The Spirit Lounge, a follow up to her bestselling Murder at Gulls Nest.
Tickets (at £7 to include a glass of wine or £20 to include a glass of wine and a copy of Murder at The Spirit Lounge) are on sale now in the bookshop and online (booking fees apply to tickets purchased online)

Photo of Chris Brookmyre copyright Bob McDevitt Photography

Chris Brookmyre is coming to Valentino’s Restaurant in Ripon to talk to us about his journalist hero Jack Parlablane and his latest crime novel, Quite Ugly One Evening. Chris’s books are brilliantly conceived, punchy and very funny and we’re delighted to add him to our Coffee and Crime series at Valentino’s. Afterwards he’ll be signing books and chatting in the bookshop (next door).
Tickets (at £10 to include coffee and pastry or £26 to include a copy of Quite Ugly One Evening and coffee and pastry)
are on sale now in the bookshop and online (booking fees apply to tickets purchased online)

Lesley McEvoy
Coffee and Crime

11:00am
3rd September 2026

at Valentino’s Restaurant
14 Westgate, Ripon, HG4 2AT

Lesley McEvoy is a behavioural analyst/profiler and psychotherapist with her own consultancy business and therapy practice. She also writes brilliant crime thrillers which call on her experiences in business and prisons. We’re delighted to have Lesley visit Ripon and tell us about her writing and just how many psychopaths there are out there!
We highly recommend her books which feature Jo McCready and are based in the Leeds/Bradford area. The first title is “The Murder Mile”.