内容摘要：In an instant the restaurant had been transformed into a chaotic crime scene.

In an instant the restaurant had been transformed into a chaotic crime scene.

The first seven members of the group met in 1975 and have since read more than 350 books, welcomed 30 members, met 500 times and consumed more than 1,000 bottles of wine.One of the original members of the group, Elspeth Davis, started the group as she was a new mother at the time and said she needed something else to "exercise" her mind.

"I've really enjoyed the variety of books we've read and the friendship and the camaraderie," said fellow member Jill Stanley.Ms Davis brought back the idea of a book club from Canada, where she had been living for six years.The group is named Lit - short for Literary Circle - and was first hosted at her home in the North Somerset village of Easton-in-Gordano.

"The variety of books is absolutely amazing and there are lots of books that I never would have thought to pick up," Mary Donaldson, who joined the group in 1978, said.But although the readers have covered a lot of ground with their choices - from thrillers to poetry - the one genre they have failed to agree to try is science fiction.

Members have formed a close-knit group, bonding over other shared interests, such as walking and films.

Sue Tuckwell was initially daunted by the number of books the group had read when she joined in the mid-1980s.Mike Andrews, who leads National Trading Standards' e-crimes unit and was involved in the investigation into Hunter and the Ticket Queen, told the BBC how he joined the early morning raid on the anonymous townhouse in a tree-lined north London street where Hunter ran his operation.

Upstairs was a room filled with PCs, whirring away, buying and selling tickets. "It was obviously an operation that ran pretty much 24/7," Mr Andrews said. They also found rolls of tickets in seat-number order for events such as Lady Gaga concerts and the Harry Potter play, and multiple credit cards.Reselling tickets for profit for live performances in the UK is not illegal. But Hunter and Chenery-Woods were convicted of using fraudulent practices to get around restrictions - such as limits on the number of tickets an individual can buy.

They pretended to be lots of different people, using lots of different credit cards, when they bought the tickets from companies such as Ticketmaster, See Tickets or AXS - which are known as primary ticketing websites.The Ticket Queen used the details of family members, including a dead relative, to buy tickets, as well as using the names and addresses of dozens of people in and around the town of Diss, Norfolk where her business operated.