A pub garden in Midsomer just after noon yesterday. John Nettles and executive producer Brian True-May were there to talk about two new Midsomer Murders films.
Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox are set to return for a fourth series of ITV1 murder mystery drama Lewis.
The first manuscript pages of The Complaints, featuring new detective Malcolm Fox, given to charity sale.

The Crime Writers’ Association is delighted to announce the shortlists for a number of this year’s Daggers — the prestigious awards that celebrate the very best in crime and thriller writing in 2009. When nominations closed on 17 April, 988 entries had been put forward for the seven daggers in contention this year.
He became intrigued by the shady, unsavoury characters whom he would once have cast as villains Eric Ambler’s exciting, fast-paced spy novels influenced Hitchcock and Graham Greene, and with their leftish take on 1930s European politics rescued the genre from nationalist cliché. Thomas Jones on a consummate thriller writer whose scrutiny of the links between big business and bad governments is all too relevant today.