Thursday, 9 May
14:40 - 15:30
The Panel are Cathy Ace, Christina Koning,
Ovidia Yu,
and the participating Moderator is Michael Stanley
(Michael Sears)
The topic for discussion
Finding Your Place: Landscape and setting
Cathy Ace’s Cait Morgan Mysteries are Christie-esque whodunits featuring a globetrotting Welsh Canadian psychologist (optioned for TV by Free@LastTV). Her WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries feature a quartet of softly poached female PIs solving cases from a Welsh stately home. She’s won the Bony Blithe Award, IPPY and IBA Awards, and has been twice shortlisted for CWC Awards of Excellence, plus the CrimeFictionLover Best Indie. She’s a Past Chair of Crime Writers of Canada.
www.cathyace.com
Christina Koning
has worked as a journalist, reviewing fiction for The Times, and
taught Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of
London. From 2013 to 2015, she was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham
College, Cambridge. She won the Encore Prize in 1999 and was long-listed for
the Orange Prize in the same year. Murder at Bletchley Park is the
eighth novel in the Blind Detective series.
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 Angsana Tree Mystery, The Mimosa Tree Mystery, The Mushroom Tree Mystery, The Yellow Rambutan Tree Mystery are history mysteries and her ‘Aunty’ books, Aunty Lee’s Delights and Aunty Lee’s Chilled Revenge etc are contemporary foodie mysteries.
Michael Stanley is the writing duo Stanley
Trollip and Michael Sears. Their mystery novels, featuring Detective Kubu, are set in Botswana. The third – Death of the Mantis – won a Barry Award and was an Edgar finalist. Their fourth, Deadly Harvest, was a finalist for an International Thriller Writers award. Their seventh mystery, Facets of Death, was released in 2020. Their book, Dead of Night, published in 2019, is a thriller about rhino-horn smuggling, with protagonist Crystal Nguyen. Stanley lives in Minneapolis and Cape Town.
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