CrimeFest 2023: Black is the Night: Cornell Woolwich

 Saturday, 13 May 2023
11:20 - 12:10

The Panel are Martin Edwards, Samantha Lee Howe,
Vaseem Khan, Nonna Moore, 
and the Participating Moderator is Maxim Jakubowski

Martin Edwards is the author of 21 novels, including the Lake District Mysteries and the Rachel Savernake books, and also an acclaimed history of crime fiction, The Life of Crime. He received the CWA Diamond Dagger for the sustained excellence of his work. He has also won the Edgar, Agatha, CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards, the Short Story Dagger and Dagger in the Library, plus the Poirot award for his contribution to the genre.

https://martinedwardsbooks.com/     

Samantha Lee Howe is the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Stranger In Our Bed published by HarperCollins in 2020. The book is now a major feature film, available to stream all over the world. Samantha’s explosive spy trilogy – The  House of Killers, Kill Or Die and Kill A Spy – was published in 2021. She is currently working on her seventh thriller novel as well as several other screenplays. 

 www.samanthaleehowe.co.uk

Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India. His debut, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was a Sunday Times 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020 pick. In 2021, Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House novels set in 1950s Bombay, won the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger. Vaseem co-hosts the popular crime fiction podcast, The Red Hot Chilli Writers.

 www.vaseemkhan.com 

Donna Moore, CrimeFest’s co-host, also works as a literacy tutor for marginalised and vulnerable women, facilitates creative writing workshops and has a PhD in creative writing around women’s history and gender-based violence. Her first novel, Go To Helena Handbasket won the Lefty Award for most humorous crime fiction novel and her second novel, Old Dogs, was shortlisted for both the Lefty and Last Laugh Awards. Her short stories have been published in various anthologies.

Maxim Jakubowski is an established novelist, ex-publisher, critic and translator, owner of London's erstwhile Murder One bookshop, and is currently the Chair of the Crime Writers' Association. His more recent books are the Black is the Night anthology and his short story collection Death Has A Thousand Faces. He is an Executive Producer on the forthcoming Factory TV series from Fox/Disney, based on the novels of Derek Raymond. Website:

www.maximjakubowski.co.uk