Thriller-School | Crime fiction writing course, with specialist experts in real-life crime and crime fiction writing and publishing.Thriller-School | Crime fiction writing course, with specialist experts in real-life crime and crime fiction writing and publishing.

What is Thriller School?

Where specialists in crime fighting and crime writing come together.
Read and discuss crime writing, meet and talk to writers, agents, publishers, detectives, forensic scientists - every expert in the fiction and the facts of crime.

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Making crime fiction work

Successful authors share their secrets.
Lin Anderson, author of witty, gritty Tartan noirs and creator of Rhona MacLeod, forensic pathologist, was a recent guest speaker at Thriller School.

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The facts behind the fiction

Forensic details that make the difference.
Dr Emily O'Shea from Cellmark Forensics recently shared with Thriller School delegates true-life examples of how blood spatter analysis has helped catch and convict criminals.

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What is Thriller School?
Where specialists in crime fighting and crime writing come together.
Read and discuss crime writing, meet and talk to writers, agents, publishers, detectives, forensic scientists - every expert in the fiction and the facts of crime.
Read more
Making crime fiction work
Successful authors share their secrets.
Lin Anderson, author of witty, gritty Tartan noirs and creator of Rhona MacLeod, forensic pathologist, was a recent guest speaker at Thriller School.
Read more
The facts behind the fiction
Forensic details that make the difference.
Dr Emily O'Shea from Cellmark Forensics recently shared with Thriller School delegates true-life examples of how blood spatter analysis has helped catch and convict criminals.
Read more

Running from 6th to 7th September 2013 at the historic Pierpont Inn, Ventura, Thriller School California brings together experts in crime fighting, crime detection and the law, as well as specialists in crime fiction writing, publishing and marketing. Everything for the passionate crime fiction reader and the budding crime fiction writer.

Running from 26th to 27th October 2013 in the amazing setting of Balliol College Oxford,Thriller School Oxford provides the crime fiction afficionado and the budding writer alike with information, expertise and advice from experienced specialists in the realities of crime fighting and of crime fiction writing and publishing.

Some highlights from previous Thriller Schools in the US and the UK

: Punting in Oxford

: A book takes shape

: Hands on learning

: SJ Parris with her new book

: The end of a working day