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==== Murder in the Metcalfe ====
The 2010 seminar covered the theme of Crime and Mystery Fiction.

[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nsw_risg/albums/72157704618759521|You can look at photographs from the seminar here]]

{{:wiki:45950538345_cbd40c3936_o.jpg|Showing the organisers of the day with Matthew Reilly}}

[[https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/murder-in-the-metcalfe-a-readers-advisory-seminar-for-crime-and-mystery-tickets-514709510|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 &amp; 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.