

Harrogate dreaming
Dreams come true at Harrogate Crime festival In 2006, I read Tess Gerritsen’s mind-blowing thriller “The Surgeon.” I hadn’t read a crime novel before and had no clue what the effects of that book would be. I read it over three (terrifying) nights and remember going downstairs to check my windows and doors were locked which made no sense at all. Firstly, because it was fiction! Secondly, because “The Surgeon” only preyed on women! But, the effect of that page-turning novel wer