Saturday 13 May 2023
16:00 - 16:50
The Panel are Ruth Dudley Edwards, T.E. Kinsey,
Mike Ripley, Ovidia Yu,
and the Participating Moderator is Simon Brett
Ruth Dudley
Edwards is an historian and
journalist. The targets of her satirical crime novels include academia, the
civil service, the House of Lords, the Church of England, literary prizes and
political correctness. She won CrimeFest’s Goldsboro Last Laugh Award for Murdering
Americans (2008) and Killing the Emperors (2013), as well as the CWA
Non-Fiction Gold Dagger for Aftermath: The Omagh Bombings and The
Families’ Pursuit Of Justice. (2010).
T.E.
Kinsey
(Tim) was born in the 1960s. He grew up in London in the 1970s and went to
university in Bristol in the 1980s. He worked in magazines in the 1990s, and
for IMDb in the 2000s. He still lives near Bristol. He’s responsible for the
popular historical cosy series The Lady
Hardcastle Mysteries and The Dizzy Heights Mysteries (Thomas &
Mercer) but he does occasionally play the drums.
Mike Ripley appeared on the crime scene thirty-five years ago with his
award-winning ‘Angel’ series of comedy thrillers. He was crime critic for the
Daily Telegraph for ten years, a scriptwriter on BBC’s Lovejoy and as editor for Ostara, republished almost 100
out-of-print crime novels. His history of British thrillers, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, won the H.R.F.
Keating Award and he is currently the ‘continuation’ author for Margery
Allingham’s Golden Age hero Albert Campion.
Ovidia
Yu is a Singapore based writer of Singapore based mysteries who’ll
be travelling to the UK just for CrimeFest.
Her ‘tree’ books, The Mimosa Tree
Mystery, The Mushroom Tree Mystery,
The Yellow Rambutan Tree Mystery etc
are history mysteries and her ‘Aunty’ books, Aunty Lee’s Delights and Aunty
Lee’s Chilled Revenge etc are contemporary foodie mysteries. She loves
reading, dogs, plants and is trying to learn yoga. 
Simon Brett has published over a hundred books, including the Charles
Paris, Mrs Pargeter, Fethering, Blotto & Twinks and Decluttering series. A Shock to the System, became a feature
film, starring Michael Caine. Bill Nighy plays Charles Paris in the books’
Radio 4 adaptations. In 2014 Simon was presented with the Crime Writers’
Association’s highest award, the Diamond Dagger, and he was made an O.B.E. in
the 2016 New Year’s Honours ‘for services to literature’.
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