CrimeFest 2024: Friday 10 May: Domestic Noir: When Murder is Close to Home.

  Friday, 10 May
16:00 - 16:50

The Panel are Emma Curtis, Caroline England,
Laura Lipmann, Dan Malakin
and the participating Moderator is Louise Mangos

Emma Curtis lives in West London with her husband. Her children have left home. Emma's twelve years as a school secretary turned out to be the ideal foundation for a later career in writing domestic thrillers. Emma has published five titles with Transworld: One Little Mistake, When I Find You, The Night You Left, Keep Her Quiet and Invite Me In. Her latest thriller The Babysitter is published by Corvus. 

Caroline England (aka C.E. Rose) is the CWA Short Story Dagger shortlisted author of six multi-layered, dark and edgy domestic noir novels, Beneath the Skin, My Husband’s Lies, Betray Her, Truth Games, The Sinner and The Stranger Beside Me. As C.E. Rose she has written four gothic-tinged psychological thrillers, The House of Hidden Secrets, The House on the Water’s Edge, The Shadows of Rutherford House and The Attic at Wilton Place. 

www.carolineenglandauthor.co.uk  

Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She began writing novels while working fulltime and published seven books about "accidental PI" Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001. Her work has been awarded the Edgar ®, the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus, the Nero Wolfe, Gumshoe and Barry awards. She was the first-ever recipient of the Mayor's Prize for Literary Excellence and the first genre writer recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association. Ms. Lippman attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. 

Dan Malakin's debut novel, The Regret, was a Kindle bestseller. His second novel, The Box, was published in 2022 and his new novel, The Wreckage of Us, will be out in June 2024. When not writing thrillers, he works as a data-security consultant, teaching corporations how to protect themselves from hackers. He lives in North London with his wife and daughter.  

www.danmalakin.com

Louise Mangos writes psychological suspense, historical mystery (as L.S. Mangos) and short fiction which has won prizes, placed on shortlists and has been narrated on BBC radio. Her novels are set mostly in Switzerland where she lives in the foothills of the Alps with her Kiwi husband and two sons, enjoying skate skiing and wild swimming when she’s not writing. She holds