Cracking Crime in Cambridge

Discover fictional corpses and conundrums down your street with Richard Reynolds, the proprietor of “Bodies in the Bookshop”.
Richard Reynolds retired as the crime fiction specialist at Heffers, Cambridge, after nearly forty-one years, in September 2022. In July 2024, he missed bookselling and launched Bodies in the Bookshop: Specialists in Murder with Jon Gifford of The Oleander Press. He is the non-voting chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger Award for best novel of the year. He is series consultant for Galileo Publishers Golden Age novels and editor of the Oreon GA Detection list ([email protected]).
“Bodies in the Bookshop” in Botolph Lane, Cambridge offers a carefully curated selection of new and secondhand crime fiction titles, with a special emphasis on authors with Cambridge connections. Visitors can expect to find a diverse array of gripping mysteries, from classic Golden Age tales to the latest bestsellers
Date Tuesday 10 November 2026
Time 7:30pm – 9pm
Location Ross St Community Centre, Ross Street, Cambridge CB1 3UZ
Admission £3