Package - Wine and Crime

Package includes all three Wine and Crime talks  at Nairn Community and Arts Centre,    these are listed in full below.


Daniel Aubrey:  1.00pm
Daniel Aubrey is the author of the Orkney Mysteries series starring neurodivergent reporter, Freya Sinclair. His most recent book, The Dying Light, was nominated for the 2025 McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime fiction book of the year, and selected for the prestigious Critics’ New Blood panel at the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival  in Harrogate. Now living in Orkney, Daniel is a former journalist. His bestselling debut novel, Dark Island, was nominated for the 2024 McDermid Debut Award, the 2024 Bloody Scotland Debut Prize, and a Saltire Society Scottish National Book Award.

Marion Todd: 2.30pm
Marion is the author of the popular DI Clare Mackay crime series set in St Andrews. Her debut novel, See Them Run, was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Debut of the Year in 2020 and she has gone on to sell more than 600,000 books. Now a full-time author she has also worked as a college lecturer, candlemaker and hotel lounge pianist. Marion is looking forward to chatting about her most recent novel, Watch Them Fall.

Doug Johnstone:  4.00pm
Doug Johnstone is celebrating a landmark twentieth year as a published writer with his twentieth novel, Ghost Notes, which is the seventh in his acclaimed and award-winning Skelfs crime fiction series. His first two novels – Tombstoning and The Ossians – have also been reissued this year with new introductions by Chris Brookmyre and Val McDermid, and he’ll be discussing all of this and much more as he looks back over two decades of murder and mayhem. He’ll also be playing some live music, so a joyous hour is guaranteed.