Crime writers Ann Cleeves and Louise Penny at Little Ripon Bookshop

The two best-sellers have new paperbacks out now: Cleeve’s The Seagull and Penny’s A Great Reckoning.

Cleeve is the author of the series of Stanhope novels set in the North East and feature the ever popular DI Vera Stanhope .

They have been turned into a TV series with Brenda Blethyn in the title role.

Award-winning Penny hails from Ca nada and her books feature a detective in the Canadian Surete de Quebec, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.

They are sometimes set in the village of Three Pines where friends of Gamache life.

Tickets are £12 and they include coffee (or tea), cake, a double author talk and your choice of one of the books,