Here's who will be lining up. Tickets can be booked now - Weekend Rover: £236, Friday Rover: £93, Saturday Rover: £105. Box office: 01423 562 303, or book online harrogate internationalfestivals.com Individual event tickets will go on sale on Tuesday April 9 at 10am.

5. State side
Jeffery Deaver will be coming from the US to talk about his best-selling novels which include The Bone Collector
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6. Murder mystery specialist
Master of the suburban thriller and Netflix collaborator Harlan Coben
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7. Plot location
The Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate, is the apt setting for the festival. The once queen of crime Agatha Christie stayed here.
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8. Fantastic fiction
Writer Eva Dolan. Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger for unpublished authors when she was a teenager, Long Way Home is her debut novel and the start of a major new crime series.
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