Keighley writer Lesley Horton is teaming up with three other women for a bloody rampage around the country.

The quartet have been responsible for around 60 murders, but now want to confess to their crimes.

The "LadyKillers" will give people an insight into their motives and methods during appearances at festivals, bookshops and libraries.

The murders are all fictional, of course, for the women are crime writers who have teamed up to promote their books.

Lesley Horton's debut novel Snares of Guilt has just appeared in paperback and the follow-up, On Dangerous Ground, is out in June.

Lesley's colleagues Danuta Reah, Priscilla Masters and Zoe Sharp have between them been responsible for more make-believe murders.

A spokesman for the Ladykillers says victims have been shot, stabbed, strangled, garroted, hanged, bludgeoned, overdosed and disembowelled .

"On the rare occasion, people have even died of natural causes, but they don't wish to encourage that kind of thing."

The Ladykillers will talk about all aspects of their crimes, from psychological plot twists to bursts of action.

"If women are supposed to be the weaker sex, then nobody told these four," says the spokesman.

"Their varied styles and very different approaches to crime, its execution and resolution, combine to complement each other."

The Ladykillers begin their tour at Borders' bookshop in Leeds, on Wednesday (Mar 12) at 7pm.