Friday,
12 May 2023
11:20 - 12.10
The Panel are Helen Fields, Tom Hindle,
Guy Morpuss, Kate Simants,
and the participating Moderator is Sarah Ward.
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Helen Fields is a million copy
best-selling author whose work has been translated into more than 20
languages. She is the author of the Perfect series, set in
Scotland, and a psychological profiling series featuring Connie Woolwine -
The Shadow Man and The Institution. She is the author of
legal thriller Degrees of Guilt as H S Chandler. Helen was
formerly a criminal barrister, and now spends her time moving between West
Sussex, Scotland and California.
Tom
Hindle originally hails from Yorkshire, although he now lives in
Oxfordshire with his wife, a rather demanding cat and two surprisingly cunning
tortoises. Inspired by the likes of Agatha Christie and Anthony Horowitz, he is
the author of two locked-room whodunnits, with a third on the way in 2024. His
debut novel, A Fatal Crossing, was Waterstones’ Thriller of the Month in
August 2022.
Guy
Morpuss
writes speculative crime fiction: twist one aspect of the real world, add a
dead body, and play with the consequences. His debut novel, Five
Minds, is about five people sharing one body, one of whom is trying to
murder the others. His second novel, Black Lake Manor, is a locked
room murder mystery with a killer who can unwind time. Before taking up
full-time writing Guy worked as a barrister in London.
Kate Simants’ writing draws on her experience
in the television industry, where she specialised in undercover investigations
and police shows. Her latest novel Freeze centres on a reality TV show
shot on an Arctic ship. She was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger for Lock
Me In, and won the 2019 Bath Novel Award with A Ruined Girl. Kate
also ghostwrites memoirs, and is the script editor of the chart-topping Short
History Of… podcast.
Sarah Ward is a contemporary
crime novelist who writes gothic historical thrillers as Rhiannon Ward. The
Birthday Girl, the first book in her new Welsh based series, will be
published in April 2023. She has also written Doctor Who audio dramas.
Sarah is on Board of the Crime Writers Association and Friends of Buxton
Festival, is a member of Crime Cymru, and a Royal Literary Fund fellow at
Sheffield University.
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