On the first day of National Crime Reading Month, Stephen Wade launches his new book, ‘A dictionary of true crime’, a personal selection of favourite crime cases from Stephen’s research file, along with classic cases in the annals of true crime.

Stephen says:

This is my personal collection of cases and people around the true crime I have researched over the years. The aim was to present some unusual angles on the subject, and keep the familiar tales mostly secondary.

In my crime writing, I always enjoy using people’s testimony and experience in relation to a specific case. My own perspective is always there too.

True crime as a genre is not necessarily about stories of blood and guts, violence and gangland. But readers tend to be most interested in crimes before the very modern offences linked to the new technology and advanced identity theft.

If I had to explain why true crime through history is my passion as a writer, then the reason has to be that through transgression we tend to see and maybe understand something of the human that has previously been eclipsed by the process of history.

Places are FREE but limited, so please book at Criminous Pleasures: A Dictionary of True Crime (northlincs.gov.uk)

by clicking on ‘Register’ and submitting your details. You will receive an email confirming that you have been added to the attendee list.

Stephen Wade was born in Leeds and educated at the universities of Aberystwyth and Leeds. He has taught in further and higher education and has also worked as a writer in prisons. He has published over 50 books in fiction and non-fiction. He lives in North Lincolnshire.

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