Don't miss out on these great online events- booking details for Part 1 below, and Part 2 & 3 at the end of the post.
APRIL 22 @ 7:30 PM
PART 1 – ‘SECURING THE SCENE’ WITH GRAHAM
BARTLETT AND KATE BENDELOW
Learn
with the Crime Experts
22 April 7.30pm
Tickets: http://bit.ly/SecureTheScene
The CWA minds behind February’s Blending Fact and Fiction have put
together a thrilling three-part series: Walking Through A Crime Scene.
Accuracy
underpins plausibility in any novel, and in crime fiction, it’s imperative not
to make any mistakes. The CWA’s bestselling author Sam Blake and Crime
Fiction PhD student Luke Deckard are bringing an ex-senior police officer, a
CSI officer, a forensic expert and a pathologist to a screen near you to
describe their role and answer your questions.
Wherever
you are in your writing career, discover up-to-the-minute techniques that will
inspire and guide you in this fascinating series. Research is crucial to
writing believable crime, and in this series, the CWA bring you the experts who
can help make that easier.
At this
open discussion and Q&A you will learn who’s involved, who’s responsible
for what, and crucially, what can go wrong at a crime scene!
Graham Bartlett and Kate Bendelow join forces to show you exactly what
happens at a crime scene, who is involved, who is responsible for what, and the
series of events that transpire from that 999 call and the first officer
arriving on the scene. Who does what when? And crucially, what can go wrong?
Graham Bartlett was a UK police officer in Sussex for thirty
years. He mainly policed the city of Brighton and Hove, rising to become its
police commander. On the way, he was a homicide senior investigating officer
and led on managing dangerous offenders, sexual offences, domestic violence,
child protection and hate crime. He was a qualified strategic firearms and
public order commander, leading the policing of many armed operations, large
scale protests and sporting events.
Since retiring, he has become a police procedural and crime advisor
helping scores of authors and TV writers (including Peter James, Mark
Billingham, Elly Griffiths and Dorothy Koomson) achieve authenticity alongside
their drama. He works flexibly with authors at all stages of their writing
career and adopts an ethos of ‘creativity with credibility.’ Graham runs a
series of hugely popular online courses and workshops under the banner of
‘Crime Writing: Making it Real’. He is also a best-selling crime writer, with
two non-fiction books – Death Comes Knocking and Babes in the Wood – to his
name, and a crime novel in the pipeline.
Kate Bendelow is a serving Crime Scene Investigator with 18
years of experience. She has worked on thousands of crime scenes including
rapes, robberies and murders. Kate can provide you with an insight into what
really goes on behind the crime scene tape. She can tell you who is allowed
access, how evidence types are recovered and how long DNA, fingerprints and
toxicology samples take to be analysed.
Kate
can share what it is really like to work with death and come face to face with
some of the most heinous criminals – from the practical to the emotive. She is
also a writer and the author of The Real CSI: A Forensic Handbook for Crime
Writers and has a novel out in May 2021.
Hosted by Sam Blake and Luke Deckard.
Tickets
£5.00 per session. (Spaces are limited)
CWA
members are entitled to free tickets. For your promo code, see details in News
& Events in the members section or contact Admin.
Next
events in the series are 20 May & 24 June
Part
2 – Murder Under the Microscope with Dr Jim Fraser
20 May 7.30pm – Tickets: http://bit.ly/MurderUnderMicroscope
Part
3 – Pathology Opened Up with Dr Marie Cassidy
24 June 7.30pm – Tickets: http://bit.ly/pathologyopenedup
