Crime at Christmas - Chris Frost in Conversation with Rob Parker

Chris Frost is coming to Chorley Theatre on Monday 16 November, where he'll be in conversation with fellow author Rob Parker. The evening is hosted by ebb & flo bookshop, and the two will spend the session talking through Frost's latest book, The Christmas Carol Killer. It's a conversation rather than a reading, and it opens up for audience questions and a book signing afterwards.

If the name sounds familiar but the face doesn't, there's a reason for that. Chris Frost is actually a pen name. He writes under his real name, Chris McDonald, and has put out ten crime books that way, including the Erika Piper trilogy and The Wrong Man. Frost is his wintery alter-ego, the name he uses for novels set around Christmas murders and for the adventures of Detective Inspector Tom Stonem. So The Christmas Carol Killer sits right in that festive-crime territory he's carved out for himself.

Frost grew up in Northern Ireland and now lives in Marple, and when he's not writing, he's a podcast producer with a fondness for football, heavy metal and dogs. He's joined on the night by Rob Parker, the author of The Troubled Deep and Forbidden Waters, who'll be the one leading the conversation. Between the two of them, you'll get a proper look at how The Christmas Carol Killer came together, with the chance to ask your own questions and get a copy signed at the end.

The whole thing takes place in The Studio, ebb & flo bookshop, inside Chorley Theatre on Dole Lane (PR7 2RL), which is also home to the award-winning live theatre staged by the Chorley Amateur Dramatic & Operatic Society. It starts at 7:00pm, and tickets run from £6.00 to £16.00.