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Chris Chibnall and Ragnar Jónasson talk to Julia Wheeler

Fictions: Death and Disappearance

Hay Festival 2025, 

Head into the dark with Chris Chibnall and Ragnar Jónasson, as they introduce their new noir novels.

Chibnall, the creator of Broadchurch and showrunner of Doctor Who, makes his crime fiction debut with Death at the White Hart, about a detective who moves back to Dorset. There, she finds a grisly crime scene in the picturesque village of Fleetcombe. Chibnall is a Bafta, Royal Television Society, Broadcasting Press Guild and Peabody award-winning screenwriter, executive producer and playwright.

Jónasson’s The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer sees young detective Helgi investigating the case of Elín S Jónsdóttir, a bestselling crime author who has gone missing, and left no clues about her disappearance. Jónasson is the award-winning Icelandic author of the international bestselling Hulda series and the Dark Iceland series. He is also co-founder and co-chair of the literary festival Iceland Noir, held in Reykjavík.