Dreda Say Mitchell is an award-winning and best-selling author and has been collaborating with Ryan Carter since her fifth book. At its heart of their latest chilling thriller are the cases of missing black women that are all too frequently left without investigation, and are overlooked by the media.

‘Britain’s finest crime fiction writer’ – Lee Child

Venue: High House Production Park, Vellacott Close, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, RM19 1RJ

Date and time: Saturday 11th June, 3.30pm

Tickets: £8 / £7 concessions (Students, Under 27s and Jobseekers)

Box Office: Book online or via Mercury Theatre 01206 573948 (10am – 8pm Tuesday to Saturday)

Say Her Name by Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter

In this chilling thriller from the bestselling authors of Spare Room, one woman just wants the truth about who she really is. But she’s not the only one looking…

Their new novel is a psychological thriller that at its heart has the cases of missing black women and girls that are all too frequently left without investigation, and are overlooked by the media.

Eva, goes in search of her biological parents, despite the warnings of her adopted father Carlton ‘Sugar’ McNeil. As she continues to dig, Eva is drawn into a dark and merciless underside to society, where black women disappear without a word. Once, someone tried to save her from all this. But now that she’s torn down the facade of her life, has she come too far to be spared again?

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About the Authors

Dreda was awarded an MBE in her New Year’s Honours List, 2020. Dreda has been a guest on many radio shows and presented BBC Radio 4’s flagship books programme, Open Book. She scooped the CWA’s John Creasey Dagger Award for best first-time crime novel in 2004, the first time a Black British author has received this honour. She has appeared on television, including Celebrity Pointless, Celebrity Eggheads, BBC 1 Breakfast, Sunday Morning Live, Newsnight and The Review Show.