Friday,
12 May 2023
09:00 - 09.50
The Panel are Antony Johnston, Leigh Russell,
Fiona Veitch Smith, T.E. Kinsey,
and the Participating Moderator is Dolores Gordon-Smith
Antony Johnston is a New York Times
bestseller and the creator of Atomic Blonde, the blockbuster movie
starring Charlize Theron. Following the success of this and his acclaimed Brigitte
Sharp thrillers, this year sees the launch of his new cosy crime series, The
Dog Sitter Detective mysteries. Antony is former vice chair of the
Crime Writers' Association, and a Shore Scripts screenwriting judge and mentor.
Leigh Russell
has written nineteen books in her Geraldine Steel series. The 20th, Without
Trace, will be published in August 2023. Leigh launched a new cosy series
in March 2023 with Barking up the Right Tree. This is followed by Barking
Mad in July 2023. Shortlisted for two CWA Dagger Awards, Leigh has twice
been a Finalist
for The People's Book Prize. She is Chair of the CWA Debut Dagger
judges, and a Royal Literary Fellow.
Fiona
Veitch Smith writes
Golden Age murder mysteries. She is best known for her Poppy Denby Investigates
series (book 1, The Jazz Files, was shortlisted for the CWA Historical
Dagger 2016). Fiona is launching a new series about a lady forensic scientist
who inherits a detective agency in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, set in 1929. The Miss
Clara Vale Mysteries are published by Embla Books (Bonnier UK). The first, The
Picture House Murders, will be out in September. http://fiona.veitchsmith.com/ 
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.
Dolores Gordon-Smith’s 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. 
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