Friday 12 May 2023
09:00 - 09:50
The Panel are N.J. Fountain, Jo Furniss,
Jackie Kabler, Lesley Kara
and the Participating Moderator is Kate Rhodes
Nev Fountain is an award-winning writer, chiefly known for his work on the BBC sketch show 'Dead Ringers' and ‘Private Eye’ magazine. He has also worked for many programmes, including 'Have I Got News for You', ‘2DTV’ and ‘Newzoids’. Nev has written three humorous detective novels The Mervyn Stone Mysteries, and a serious one, Painkiller. He is currently writing a new series of novels for Titan and a graphic novel for B7E.
Jo Furniss spent much of her adult life living in Cameroon, Switzerland and Singapore. She’s now back home, beside the seaside near Brighton. Her novels include the thriller, All the Little Children, an Amazon Chart bestseller. Her next is Dead Mile - a murder mystery set on a gridlocked motorway - out in 2024.A former BBC journalist, Jo also writes for the award-winning ‘Short History Of’ podcast. Visit Instagram or Twitter @jofurnissauthor.
Jackie Kabler is a former TV news reporter turned psychological thriller writer. Her novels, which include The Perfect Couple, Am I Guilty?, The Happy Family and The Murder List have sold nearly a million copies, hit the Amazon number one spots in the UK and Canada, been translated into eight languages and made the USA Today bestseller list. Jackie also works as a TV shopping channel presenter and, to relax, loves running ultramarathons.
Lesley Kara is a Sunday Times Top Ten and Amazon #1 bestselling author of psychological thrillers. Her debut, The Rumour, was the highest selling print crime fiction debut of 2019 and has been optioned for TV by Cuba Pictures. Subsequent novels include Who Did You Tell, The Dare and The Apartment Upstairs.
Kate Rhodes has a PhD in modern American literature and has taught English at British and American universities. Crossbones Yard was Kate’s first crime novel, featuring London psychologist Alice Quentin. There are six books in the series The first book in her current series was Hell Bay, which is set on the Isles of Scilly, and features DI Ben Kitto. Hell Bay was nominated for the Crime Novel of the Year award. She has also been shortlisted for a Dagger in the Library Award.
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