This literary festival focuses on one of our era’s most exciting genres: crime. Now firmly part of London’s literary calendar, each year it hosts a top-notch line-up of crime and thriller authors in a rich programme of talks, panels and interviews. Over 100 authors and experts will feature over the three-day programme of panels, Q&As, book launches and industry networking events, culminating in the Fingerprint Awards, an annual reader-voted awards ceremony celebrating the very best new writing in the genre. Details of the 2026 line-up are yet to be announced, but we’ll be conducting a thorough investigation in due course.

Capital Crime
Time Out says
Details
- Event website:
- www.capitalcrime.org/
- Address
- Leonardo Royal London St Pauls
- 10 Godliman Street
- London
- EC4V 5AJ
- Price:
- £195 for full festival; from £75 for day passes; £30 for site passes
- Opening hours:
- Times vary
Dates and times
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