CSI Portsmouth where crime fiction meets crime fact is a great event held every year in November as part of Portsmouth Bookfest and brings together best selling crime authors and crime experts to debate crime fact and crime fiction. This year it is being held on 3 November in Portsmouth, England at the John Pounds Centre and a great line of speakers is being lined up. You can find further details of CSI Portsmouth 2012 on Pauline Rowson's official website plus details and photographs from CSI Portsmouth 2010 and CSI Portsmouth 2011. There is also now a Facebook Page and you can Follow both Pauline Rowson and CSI Portsmouth on Twitter. Crime authors will be joining crime experts from the major crime team and scenes of crime from Hampshire Police, fingerprint experts from the Hampshire Fingerprint Bureau and forensic psychologists and anthropologists Make a note in your diary now for this fantastic event where you can meet and mingle with top selling crime authors and top forensic crime experts; hear how the authors write their popular crime novels, find out how much they draw on real life experiences and experts, learn about what really happens at a crime scene, and how an investigation is worked, discover what forensic experts do, see how the fingerprint bureau works, have your fingerprints taken, and much, much more.