(From left to right : Chris Speck, Robert Rutherford, Sheila Halliday, and Ben Kennedy.
Peter was a patron of the Richmond (North Yorkshire) Walking and Book Festival for many years. On Saturday, 26 September, the Festival once again honoured him by featuring a panel of crime writers at the third annual Peter Robinson Memorial Event.
James Gravenor, Book Events Co-ordinator, introduced and interviewed the following three crime writers from the north east UK:
Chris Speck is a writer and musician from East Yorkshire, UK. He writes crime thrillers set in Hull, historical fiction rooted in the East Riding, and seafaring tales drawn from the harsh world of the North Sea. His novels include The North Ground (a brutal 1804 whaling voyage), Queen of Queens (a murder mystery set in a Hull pub), and The Witch at the End of the Lane (a dark historical thriller set in Beverley).
Robert Rutherford is a founding member of the Northern Crime Syndicate crime writers’ group and has been shortlisted twice for the CWA Short Story Daggers. The Missing Hour is Robert’s second novel after his debut thriller, Seven Days
Ben Kennedy spent almost two decades as an inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police, both before and after the Handover in 1997. He now lives in West Yorkshire. His Sam Steadings stories follow the fortunes of a young police inspector and take the reader back to the years when law and order in colonial Hong Kong were threatened by a new breed of ruthless criminals.
The Festival also welcomed Peter’s wife Sheila as a sponsor of the event, who is pictured with the featured authors.
