18 May 2018
Panel 12:30 - 13:20
Detecting Duos has long been a favouite of the crime fiction lover. Ruth Dudley Edwards discuses this enduringly successful aspect of the genre with fellow authors:
Caroline
Carver who was brought up on a dairy
farm. At 18 she headed for the bright lights of London and four years later
took a holiday in Australia which turned into a ten-year stay, working for the
Sydney arm of several major international publishers. Between jobs, she
travelled widely and adventurously: back-packing in South-East Asia on $10 a
day for nine months, walking in New Zealand, trekking in Nepal and riding a
camel through the Thar Desert are just a few of her travel experiences.Her first novel Blood
Junction won the CWA Debut Dagger and was selected by Publishers Weekly as
one of the best mystery books of the year. Her latest book is Know
Me Now.
Elly Griffiths the author of a series of
crime novels set in England’s Norfolk county and featuring forensic
archaeologist Ruth Galloway. The first in the series, Crossing Places,
earned a good deal of praise both in Griffiths’ native country, England, and in
the U.S. The Literary Review termed it “a cleverly plotted and extremely
interesting first novel, highly recommended.
Since then Elly has written ten further novels featuring forensic
archaeologist Ruth Galloway. The most
recent is The Dark Angel. Recently she has
written a second series set in the 1950’s featuring magician Max Mephisto and
DI Stevens. There are four books in the
new series. Click on the title to read a review of Elly’s latest Max Mephisto
Book. The Vanishing Box.
Johana Gustawson who was born
in 1978 in Marseille, France, and is a graduate of Political Sciences She was a
journalist for television and French press. She now lives in London, England.
Priscilla
Masters born in Halifax, and brought up in South Wales. Winding up the Serpent was her first
Joanna Piercy story, published in 1995.
Although that series is still continuing the latest Crooked Street published 2016, she has also written several medical
standalones and a new series featuring coroner Martha Gunn, set in Shrewsbury. Her
latest book is Deceiver a psychological thriller featuring Dr Claire
Roget who is a forensic psychiatrist who has some very unpredictable patients.
It is set in Stoke on Trent. Priscilla trained as a registered nurse in the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital Birmingham. She moved to Staffordshire in the 1970s, had an antiques
business for a while and two sons. She started writing in the 1980s in response
to an aunt asking her what she was going to do with her life! Winding up the Serpent
was her first Joanna Piercy story, published in 1995. Although that series is still continuing the
latest Crooked Street published 2016,
she has also written several medical standalones and a new series featuring
coroner Martha Gunn, set in Shrewsbury. Her latest book is The Deceiver a psychological thriller
featuring Dr Claire Roget who is a forensic psychiatrist who has some very
unpredictable patients. It is set in Stoke on Trent.http://www.priscillamasters.co.uk/
Ruth Dudley Edwards has been a
teacher, marketing executive and civil servant and is a prize-winning biographer
as well as an historian, journalist and broadcaster. The targets of her satirical crime novels
include the civil service, gentlemen’s clubs, a Cambridge college, the House of
Lords, the Church of England, publishing, literary prizes and
politically-correct Americans. In 2008 she won the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award
for Murdering Americans. Killingthe Emperors is about conceptual art and won the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award
2013.
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