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Wednesday, 26 April 2023

CrimeFest 2023: Historical Crime Fiction: Choices, Research, and Making It Work

Saturday 13 May 2023
11:20 -
12:10

The Panel are Kate Ellis, Dolores Gordon-Smith,
Pam Lecky,

and the Participating Moderator is Sarah Williams.

Kate Ellis was born and brought up in Liverpool and she was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library in 2019. The third novel in Kate’s trilogy set in the aftermath of the Great War (The House of the Hanged Woman) is now available.  However, she is best known for her crime series featuring archaeology graduate DI Wesley Peterson, the latest of which is Serpent’s Point.

 www.kateellis.co.uk

Dolores Gordon-Smiths latest book is The Chapel in the Woods, eleventh in the Jack Haldean Golden Age Detective series.  Other books include The Murder of Charles Bravo, Serpent’s Eye, Frankie’s Letter and The Price of Silence. A regular speaker at the British Library’s Bodies from the Library, Dolores is married with five daughters and various dogs and cats. Dolores has been a teacher, a civil servant and a shaker-out of Christmas puddings in a jam factory. 

www.doloresgordon-smith.co.uk

Pam Lecky writes historical crime/espionage for Avon Books UK, a division of Harper Collins, and is represented by Thérèse Coen at Susanna Lea Associates, London. Her WW2 espionage series comprises; Her Secret War, Her Last Betrayal, and The Last Letter from London, which will be published in August 2023. Pam is currently writing a murder mystery set during the Blitz. Pam also independently publishes a popular Victorian mystery series, The Lucy Lawrence Mysteries.

 www.pamlecky.com


S.W. Williams is a long-time writer, and the editor of the online crime fiction magazine Crime Fiction Fix (www.crime-fiction-fix.com). Her non-fiction How To Write Crime Fiction (Little, Brown) came out in 2015. A new edition is due out in 2024. Her first crime fiction novel, Small Deaths, was published autumn 2017, while Blood Cuts, the first in a new series, is due out next year. Sarah is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.

 www.swwilliamsauthor.com

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