Friday 13 May 2022
16:00 - 16:50
The Panel are: Alison Bruce, Dugald Bruce-Lockheart,
Alex Shaw, Michael Stanley
and the participating Moderator is Zoe Sharp
Alex Shaw, Michael Stanley
and the participating Moderator is Zoe Sharp
Alison Bruce
was born in Croydon and grew up in Wiltshire. She had moved to the Cambridge
area in 1998 and decided to make it the backdrop for the books because of its
unique mix of characteristics. She writes the DC Gary Goodhew / Cambridge Blue
series and has also written two standalone novels, I Did It for Us
and The Moment before Impact. Alison has a first-class BSc (Hons)
in Crime and Investigative Studies and works with the Eastern region police
forces. Her next novel, Because She Looked Away, will be
published in spring 2023.
Dugald Bruce-Lockhart is an actor-turned-writer with 25
years of experience in theatre, television and film. His debut novel The
Lizard, published in 2020, has been optioned by Australian TV & Film
company, Prodigy Movies, to be turned into a television series for a global
audience. Having written the pilot episode for the TV adaptation, Dugald is
putting the finishing touches to the sequel of The Lizard, Second
Skin.
Alex Shaw spent the late 1990s in Ukraine, teaching
and running his business before joining Siemens to work across the former USSR,
and the EMEA. An ITW and CWA member, his Aidan Snow, Jack Tate
and Sophie Racine thrillers are published by HarperCollins and Luzifer
Verlag. Total Blackout was shortlisted for the 2021 Wilbur Smith
Adventure Writing Award – Best Published Novel. Alex and his family divide
their time between homes in Ukraine and England. 
Michael Stanley is writing duo Stanley Trollip
and
Michael Sears. Their mystery
novels, featuring Detective Kubu, are set in Botswana. The third – Death of the Mantis – won a Barry Award and was an Edgar
finalist. Their fourth, Deadly
Harvest, was a finalist for an
International Thriller Writers award. Their seventh mystery, Facets of Death, was released in 2020. Their book, Dead of Night,
published in 2019, is a thriller about rhino-horn smuggling, with
protagonist Crystal Nguyen.
Stanley lives in Minneapolis and Cape Town.
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Zoë Sharp
spent her childhood living aboard a catamaran on the northwest coast of
England. She opted out of mainstream education at twelve and wrote her first
novel at fifteen. She began writing crime thriller fiction after receiving
death-threats in the course of her work as a photojournalist and has been
nominated for numerous awards. She is currently writing a new mystery thriller
series for Bookouture, which began with The Last Time She Died. 
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