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How True Crime Can Inspire Crime Fiction

with author Steve Orme

Saturday 14th June 2025
Normanton Library, Derby Normanton Library
St Augustine's Community Centre
Almond Street
Derby
UK
DE23 6LX
Doors: 11:00

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Steve Orme: Event Description

Meet Steve Orme and discover why true crime fascinates him.

 

Biography: Steve Orme

Steve Orme is an award-winning journalist. He worked on newspapers and magazines before moving into radio and television and has been fascinated with crime ever since he attended magistrates’ courts as a cub reporter. After watching crime series on television, Steve decided to enter a competition called Search For a New Crime Writer on the Alibi TV channel. He reached the final and a new career beckoned. He has written two crime novels, Storm Deaths and Storm Bodies, and is working on a third. Steve is also a playwright. His first stage play, What’s Your Poison?, about the Victorian serial killer Dr William Palmer from Staffordshire who was also known as the Rugeley Poisoner, toured the UK in 2023.

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Event information

Steve Orme: Event Description

Meet Steve Orme and discover why true crime fascinates him.

 

Biography: Steve Orme

Steve Orme is an award-winning journalist. He worked on newspapers and magazines before moving into radio and television and has been fascinated with crime ever since he attended magistrates’ courts as a cub reporter. After watching crime series on television, Steve decided to enter a competition called Search For a New Crime Writer on the Alibi TV channel. He reached the final and a new career beckoned. He has written two crime novels, Storm Deaths and Storm Bodies, and is working on a third. Steve is also a playwright. His first stage play, What’s Your Poison?, about the Victorian serial killer Dr William Palmer from Staffordshire who was also known as the Rugeley Poisoner, toured the UK in 2023.

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Normanton Library
St Augustine's Community Centre
Almond Street
Derby
UK
DE23 6LX

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