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Life as a Crime Novelist

Event type: Meeting
Date: 17th September 2026
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Venue: St Columba's Church Hall
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Best-selling author Simon McCleave will talk about his writing career from television crime dramas to his bestselling thrillers set in North Wales

* Doors open 10 am * Meeting starts 10.30 * Free Refreshments*

Simon McCleave is a million-selling crime writer originally from London and now living in North Wales. Before writing novels, he worked in television and film writing for popular dramas including Silent Witness, Murder in Suburbia, Teachers, The Bill, Eastenders and many more. His debut novel The Snowdonia Killings (2020) sold over 600,000 copies and reached #1 on Amazon. It is the first in the bestselling DI Ruth Hunter novels, Wales’ most popular crime series which has sold over 3.5 million copies.