After The War Is Over

Saturday 22 October
The Electric Theatre 11.15am £6 (or book a whole day of crime for just £27)

When the war ended in 1945, what followed was not an untroubled peace. Aly Monroe and Laura Wilson have both set their latest novels in this dislocated era.

In Icelight, Aly Monroe's Peter Cotton is an agent operating in a shadowy world: MI5 is in the grip of civil war; MI6 is riddled with traitors. Unsure who to trust, he must protect a scientist from a homophobic witch-hunt, avoid the murderous attentions of Glasgow razor boys and embark on a ruthless hunt of his own.

Laura Wilson is The Guardian's crime reviewer and her award-winning crime novels have won her many fans. Stratton's War won the Ellis Peters Award and two of her novels have been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. A Capital Crime is based on the true story of the two most controversial murder trials of the 1950s and set against the backdrop of a London still scarred by war.

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