CrimeFest Saturday 11 May 2019
16:20 - 17:10
Dealing with Cold Cases is discussed by:
Will Dean
who grew up in the East Midlands. He now lives in a boggy Swedish forest and it's
from this base that he compulsively reads and writes. He is the author of 2018
bestseller Dark Pines, selected for the Zoe Ball Book Club on ITV. Dark Pines was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize and the
National Book Awards. His new Tuva Moodyson thriller Red Snow is
out now.
Anja de Jager is Dutch but lives in London. She draws inspiration
from cases that her father, a retired police detective, worked on in the
Netherlands. The first book in her Lotte
Meerman series, A Cold Death In Amsterdam, was picked by The Times as one of their Crime Novels
of the Year. Anja worked in the City for twenty years but is now a full-time
writer. She's currently working on her fifth novel.
www.anjadejager.com
Will Dean
who grew up in the East Midlands. He now lives in a boggy Swedish forest and it's
from this base that he compulsively reads and writes. He is the author of 2018
bestseller Dark Pines, selected for the Zoe Ball Book Club on ITV. Dark Pines was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize and the
National Book Awards. His new Tuva Moodyson thriller Red Snow is
out now.
Anja de Jager is Dutch but lives in London. She draws inspiration
from cases that her father, a retired police detective, worked on in the
Netherlands. The first book in her Lotte
Meerman series, A Cold Death In Amsterdam, was picked by The Times as one of their Crime Novels
of the Year. Anja worked in the City for twenty years but is now a full-time
writer. She's currently working on her fifth novel.
www.anjadejager.com
John
Lincoln
is the transparent pseudonym of John Williams, the novelist, biographer and
crime fiction reviewer for the Mail on
Sunday. His books include Into The Badlands, about American crime
fiction (‘Into the Badlands opened up the world of American crime
fiction for me and a generation’ – David Peace), a classic account of a
miscarriage of justice, Bloody Valentine, the Cardiff Trilogy of
novels and several biographies. www.johnlwilliams.co.uk
John
Lincoln
is the transparent pseudonym of John Williams, the novelist, biographer and
crime fiction reviewer for the Mail on
Sunday. His books include Into The Badlands, about American crime
fiction (‘Into the Badlands opened up the world of American crime
fiction for me and a generation’ – David Peace), a classic account of a
miscarriage of justice, Bloody Valentine, the Cardiff Trilogy of
novels and several biographies. www.johnlwilliams.co.uk
Matt
Wesolowski
is an author from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. He is also an English tutor for young
people in care. Matt's debut thriller, Six Stories, was an Amazon
bestseller, a WHSmith Fresh Talent pick, and film rights were sold to a major
Hollywood studio. A loose prequel Hydra, was published in 2018 and the
third in the Six Stories series, Changeling was published in
January 2019 and entered the Audible horror charts at number one.
Matt
Wesolowski
is an author from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. He is also an English tutor for young
people in care. Matt's debut thriller, Six Stories, was an Amazon
bestseller, a WHSmith Fresh Talent pick, and film rights were sold to a major
Hollywood studio. A loose prequel Hydra, was published in 2018 and the
third in the Six Stories series, Changeling was published in
January 2019 and entered the Audible horror charts at number one.
Lesley Thomson is the participating moderatorLesley's debut, A Kind of Vanishing, won the People’s Book Prize. The Detective’s Daughter was Amazon UK’s longest running #1 in 2013, and knocked J.K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith) to two. Lesley’s protagonist Stella Darnell is ‘one of the most original characters in British Crime Fiction’ (Sunday Times). The Detective’s Daughter series has sold over 750K copies. The most recent, The Playground Murders, is out in 2019. Lesley is writing a standalone, The Mermaid Murder.www.lesleythomson.co.uk/
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