
A final farewell to The Dales Detective with Julia Chapman
April 2 @ 18:30 – 21:00
We are delighted that Julia Chapman will be joining us in the shop to share the final instalment of her much loved Dales Detective Series, ‘Date with Destiny‘ which is due for publication on 27 March.
From death to danger and malice to mystery, Samson and Delilah have weathered many storms. Finally, things should be going smoothly. Except life’s never that simple in Bruncliffe, is it?
As the couple are beset with worries about their upcoming wedding, a charismatic celebrity comes knocking on the Dales Detective Agency’s door, seeking their services. Samson is initially reluctant to help, for many reasons. But things quickly escalate following a shocking murder at Fellside Court and, as a friend comes under suspicion, Samson and Delilah must set aside their personal problems to catch a killer.
In a case that will bring so many of Bruncliffe’s secrets out into the open, this final investigation for the Dales Detectives may be the one that breaks them for ever . . .
Date with Destiny is the final instalment in Julia Chapman’s much-loved Dales Detective series set in Yorkshire.


Julia Chapman is the author of the internationally bestselling crime series, The Dales Detective. Born in England, she has a wanderlust that has kept her moving and has followed her restless feet to Japan, Australia, the USA and France. She spent the majority of that time as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language but also dabbled in bookselling, pawnbroking and waitressing.
Alongside her husband, she ran an auberge in the French Pyrenees for six years which provided the setting for her first series, The Fogas Chronicles, published under her real name, Julia Stagg. Julia currently lives in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales where The Dales Detective is based and is hard at work on a new crime series which, if she stops running and cycling so much, should be on shelves by spring 2026. For a while at least, those feet have stopped itching…