Friday 18 May 2018
Panel 17:10 - 18:00
Sarah Hilary’s debut
novel Someone Else’s Skin won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of
the Year 2015. It was the Observer’s Book of the Month, a Richard & Judy
Book Club bestseller, and has been published worldwide. Come and Find Me is her latest book published in March 2018.
Sarah lives in Bath. 
Vaseem Khan was born in London in 1973. He studied finance at the
London School of Economics. He first saw an elephant lumbering down the middle
of the road in 1997 when he arrived in the city of Mumbai, India to work as a
management consultant. This surreal sight inspired his Baby Ganesh Agency
series of 'gritty cosy crime' novels. His aim with the series is to take
readers on a journey to the heart of modern India. He returned to the UK in
2006 and has since worked at University College London for the Department of
Security and Crime Science. Elephants are third on his list of passions, first
and second being great literature and cricket, not always in that order. His first book The Unexpected Inheritance
of Inspector Chopra was a Times Bestseller and an Amazon Best Debut. The
second in the series The Perplexing Theft
of The Jewel in The Crown won the 2017 Shamus Award for Best Original
Private Investigator Paperback. His latest book published 3 may 2018 is Murder at the Grand Raj Palace.
Michael Ridpath was born in Devon in 1961 but brought up in Yorkshire. He
was educated at Millfield, Merton College, Oxford.
Before becoming a writer, Michael Ridpath used to work in the City of London as a bond
trader. He has written eight thrillers set in the worlds of business and finance.In 2010 he published the Where The Shadows Lie, the
first in the Fire and Ice series featuring an Icelandic detective named
Magnus Jonson. He has published four further books in the series. In between the writing the series he has
published three standalone novels the most recent being Amnesia in 2017. He lives in London.
Chris Whitaker was
born in London and spent ten years working as a financial trader in the city. His
debut novel, Tall Oaks, won the CWA
John Creasey New Blood Dagger. Chris’s second novel, All the Wicked Girls, was published in August 2017. He lives in
Hertfordshire with his wife and two young sons.
The participating moderator is Peter Gutteridge
Peter Guttridge is a novelist, critic, writing teacher and a
chairperson/interviewer at a wide range of literature festivals and
events. He is a former Director of the Brighton Literature Festival and
the current co-director of Books By The Beach, the Scarborough Book
Festival. (www.booksbythebeach.co.uk). For eleven years he was the
Observer newspaper's crime fiction critic. He is the author of eleven
novels, two works of non-fiction and numerous short stories
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