CrimeFest 2024: Friday 10 May : Out With The Old: Crime Fiction: Crime Fiction set in Times of Strife and Change.

 Friday, 10 May
13:40 - 14:30

The Panel are Vaseem Kahan, Pam Lecky,
Fiona Veitch Smith, Linda Stratmann, 
and the participating Moderator is Mark Ellis

Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India. His debut, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was a Sunday Times 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020 pick. In 2021, Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House novels set in 1950s Bombay, won the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger. In 2023, Vaseem was elected the Chair of the 70-year-old UK Crime Writers Association. Vaseem was born in England. 

www.vaseemkhan.com

Pam Lecky is published by Avon and Storm Publishing. She is a member of the HNS, The Society of Authors and the CWA. Her WW2 espionage series comprises; Her Secret War (2021), Her Last Betrayal (2022), and The Last Letter from London, (2023). Under A Lightning Sky, a Blitz murder mystery, will be published in July 2024. Storm Publishing will be re-releasing Pam’s previously indie Victorian mystery series, The Lucy Lawrence Mysteries, in July this year. 

Pam Lecky Books – Historical Crime & Mystery

Fiona Veitch Smith writes Golden Age mysteries and historical crime fiction and has been shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger. Her breakthrough series was Poppy Denby Investigates about a reporter sleuth in 1920s London. Her new series, the Miss Clara Vale Mysteries with Embla Books, is set in and around Newcastle in the late 20s & early 30s, featuring a female forensic scientist who inherits a detective agency. The Pyramid Murders is due out in May.  

Fiona Veitch Smith – Author

Linda Stratmann is the author of three crime fiction series with Victorian settings. Linda’s current series The Early Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, shows a youthful Holmes, before he knew Watson, becoming the legendary detective. In the Bayswater mysteries Frances Doughty combats wily criminals and prejudice against lady detectives. In Brighton diminutive Mina Scarletti exposes fraudulent spirit mediums. Linda’s 35 books also include biography and true crime, notably a history of nineteenth century poison murder.  

www.lindastratmann.com 

Mark Ellis is a thriller writer from Swansea and a former barrister and entrepreneur. He is the creator of DCI Frank Merlin, an Anglo-Spanish police detective operating in World War 2 London. His books treat the reader to a vivid portrait of London during the war skilfully blended with gripping plots, political intrigue and a charismatic protagonist. 

                               www.markellisauthor.com