Murder in the Metcalfe
The 2010 seminar covered the theme of Crime and Mystery Fiction.
You can look at photographs from the seminar here
You can find a copy of the day's agenda here.
For information about the Genres of crime session follow this link, or you can explore some programing ideas.
Don't forget to check out the tweets from the day (thanks to Ellen & Vassiliki) at Twitter using a #crimera tag search.
Crime authors
Also have a look at the crime genre pages which are listed in the navigation bar
Books with CHARACTER as the major appeal
Books with SETTING as the major appeal
Books with STORY as the major appeal
Books with LANGUAGE as the major appeal
Books with All four Appeals
'gore' rating * very little blood moderate blood *more blood, and more information about it lots of blood and lots of detail about the blood
Georgette HEYER
Margery ALLINGHAM
Kerry GREENWOOD
Ian Rankin gore rating of * story, setting and character Patricia CORNWELL Sue GRAFTON John GRISHAM Richard North PATTERSON Janet EVANOVICH Michael Connelly gore rating of * story and setting
Nicci FRENCH Robin COOK
Val McDermid gore rating of to story and character Mary Higgins CLARK Peter Robinson gore rating of to * story, and character Agatha Christie gore rating of * setting and character Harlan COBEN Kathryn FOX Jeffrey DEAVER Ngaio MARSH Ruth RENDELL P. D. JAMES Tammy Hoag gore rating of * to setting
Alexander McCall Smith gore rating of * to setting and character David WOLSTENCROFT Alan MILLS Kathy Reichs gore rating of story, setting and character
Minette Walters gore rating of to story, setting and character Tom NEALE Susanah GREGORY Gabrielle LORD Stephen LEATHER Martina COLE Lee Child gore rating of character Elizabeth George gore rating of to * character Marele DAY Patricia WENTWORTH Reginald Hill gore rating of story, language, setting and character
Joy FIELDING Robert CRAIS Linda FAIRSTEIN Garry DISHER Lillian Jackson BRAUN
Dorothy Porter gore rating of ** language
Crime and mystery reading lends itself to readers advisory programs within the library.
There are options you can pay for like this one by Ted Kavich. There are programs which use the idea of solving a mystery as a way of introducing people to the range of services and resources within the library. Virginia Tech and Carlton College both provide detailed information about programs they ran in their libraries.
The BBC has free resources you can use as well such as this murder mystery set in Devon, and another set in Oxford. Both of these would be effective run in a library. There are also interactive programs such as one about ancient Rome, and another exploring Anglo Saxon coins. Or you could work out a way to link this Viking program to crime and mystery readers advisory work.