Friday 10 May
17:10 - 18:00
The Panel are Alison Bruce, Paul Gitsham
Kate Griffin, Nell Pattison,
and the participating Moderator is Kate London.
Alison Bruce,
acclaimed for her gripping crime novels, introduced Detective DC Gary Goodhew
in Cambridge Blue (2008). With intricate plots and vivid
characters, she has written seven Goodhew novels. Bruce’s commitment to
realism, bolstered by her studies in crime and investigation, continues with
her two standalone novels, I Did it for Us and The Moment Before
Impact. The first in the Ronnie Blake series, Because She Looked Away,
will be published in 2024.
Paul Gitsham is
a former research biologist now writing alongside his day job as a science
tutor. Along the way, Paul spent time working for a major high-street bank,
ensuring that banned individuals, such as international terrorists and other
n’er do wells, weren’t squirreling their ill-gotten gains into child trust
funds. Paul writes the DCI Warren Jones series. The latest
is Web of Lies, out now.
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Kate Griffin
has worked for an antiques dealer, as a journalist and in PR. Until recently
she was Head of Communications for Britain’s oldest conservation charity. Fyneshade is
her love letter to Victorian Gothic. It’s a murderously twisted homage to the
greats of the genre. Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, Kate’s
first book, was shortlisted for the Crime Writing Association’s Debut Dagger.
She is also the author of three subsequent Kitty Peck novels.
Nell Pattison’s
first novel, The Silent House, was a USA Today bestseller,
and the series has been optioned for TV by Hot Coals and Banijay. Nell’s first
and subsequent novels, Silent Night, The Silent Suspect, Hide,
Friends Don’t Lie, all feature d/Deaf characters. She is passionate about
disability representation in fiction.
Kate London
served in the Metropolitan Police Service first in uniform, then as a
detective. She finished her service working in the Met’s homicide command. Her
first book, Post Mortem, was published in 2015. In 2019 she was named
runner-up in Harper Bazaar's 2019 short-story competition. Her books are
being adapted and broadcast by ITV as The Tower with Gemma Whelan in the
lead. Kate also executive produces the series.
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