Friday 13 May 2022
11:20 - 12:10
Lesley Thomson,
and the participating Moderator is Cathy Ace
Mick Finlay was born in
Glasgow and grew up in Canada and England. He now divides his time between
Brighton and Cambridge, where he works in a Psychology Department. Before
becoming an academic, he ran a market stall on Portobello Road, and has worked
as a tent-hand in a travelling circus, a butcher’s boy, a hotel porter, and in
the NHS and social services. His debut book was Arrowood set in 1890s London. His most recent book is Arrowood and the Meeting House Murders, published 8 July 2021, www.arrowoodlondon.wordpress.com
Felix
Francis took
over writing the ‘Dick Francis’ novels when his father retired in the year
2000. Felis is a Member of the Institute
of Physics and taught A Level physics for seventeen years. He also acted as manager for his father, the
literary legend Dick Francis. In 2005, Felix left the worlds of education
and business to concentrate full-time on his writing. Since then he has written
ten novels, The latest being Iced published 16 September 2021. A
keen cricket supporter, he is a member of MCC and the Lord’s Taverners, as well
as of the Crime Writers Association, the International Thriller Writers, the
Detection Club and The Garrick.
Cath
Staincliffe was brought up in
Bradford. She graduated from Birmingham
University with a Drama and Theatre Arts degree and moved to work as a
community artist in Manchester where she now lives with her family. Looking
for Trouble, published in 1994, launched private eye Sal, a single parent
struggling to juggle work and home, onto Manchester’s mean streets. It
was short listed for the Crime Writers Association’s John Creasey best first
novel award, serialised on BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour and awarded Le Masque de
l’Année in France. Cath has published a further seven Sal Kilkenny
mysteries. Cath is also a scriptwriter, creator of ITV’s hit police
series, Blue Murder, which ran for five series from 2003 – 2009
starring Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis. Cath writes for radio and
created the Legacy drama series which features a chalk-and-cheese,
brother and sister duo of heir hunters. Cath’s
own story, of tracing and being re-united with her Irish birth family and her
seven brothers and sisters, featured in the television documentary Finding
Cath from RTE. Cath is a founder member of Murder Squad, a
virtual collective of northern crime writers. Her latest novel is Running
out of Road, published 15 July 2021.
Lesley Thomson was born in 1958 and brought up in Hammersmith, West
London. She went to Holland Park Comprehensive and graduated from Brighton
University in 1981 and moved to Sydney, Australia. Returning to London she did
several jobs to support writing. Her novel A Kind of Vanishing won The
People's Book Prize in 2010. In 2013 her first book in The Detective’s Daughter
series was published, featuring Stella Darnell (MD of Clean Slate Cleaning
Services) and Jack Harmon, driver on London Underground’s District Line. There
are now eight books in the series. The Most recent is The Distant Dead
published 13 May 221. Lesley combines writing with teaching creative writing at
West Dean College. She lives in Lewes with her partner.
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Cathy Ace was born and raised in
Swansea, South Wales. With a successful career in marketing having given her
the chance to write training courses and textbooks, Cathy has now finally
turned her attention to her real passion: crime fiction. Her short stories have
appeared in multiple anthologies. Two of her works, Dear George and Domestic
Violence, have also been produced by Jarvis & Ayres Productions as
‘Afternoon Reading’ broadcasts for BBC Radio 4. Cathy now writes two series of
traditional mysteries: The Cait Morgan Mysteries (TouchWood Editions) and The
WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries (Severn House Publishers). Her latest book is The Corpse with the Turquoise Toes, published 2
April 2022.
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