AN evening of crime can be enjoyed at Bolton Central Library next month.

For bestselling writer Elly Griffiths will be talking about her new books ­— the standalone “utterly bewitching” contemporary gothic novel The Stranger Diaries and the latest in the Dr Ruth Galloway

series, The Stone Circle.

Elly will be joined by “the master of modern crime” William Shaw, who will be discussing his thriller Deadland, the second book in the Kent-set Alexander Cupidi series.

Both authors will be in conversation with Murder Squad crime writer Margaret Murphy.

All three will be at Bolton Central Library on Thursday, June 6.

Admission is free but book tickets by visiting www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bolton-central-library-presents-crime-writers-elly-griffiths-william-shaw-tickets-60046031296.

The talk is the latest in visits by some of the country’s bestselling authors to Bolton Central Library in which they speak to the public in depth about their books and what inspires them.