Sunday, 12 May
09:30 - 10:20
The Panel are Nikki Copleston, Abby Davies,
Susan Grossey, Sherry Hostler, S.J. Richards,
and the participating Moderator is Zoe Sharp.
Nikki Copleston had a
career as a librarian in North London, before moving to Somerset in 2012 to
devote more time to writing. She has published five DI Jeff Lincoln police
procedurals, set in Wiltshire, and won a couple of short story competitions.
She also enjoys writing and performing flash fiction and poetry.
www.nikkicopleston.com
Abby Davies writes
psychological thrillers with a hint horror. Her first two novels, Mother
Loves Me and The Cult were published by
HarperCollins. Last year she self-published for the first time, and her seventh
suspense thriller, The Wrong Island, is hot off the press! Abby is known
for writing vivid, emotionally intense scenes that scare the crap out of you!
Susan Grossey can
honestly say that she made her living from crime. She spent decades as an
anti-money laundering consultant, giving her an obsession with criminal
finance. When she wanted to try fiction, dodgy money kept elbowing its
way in. For seven books she haunted the streets of 1820s London in the
company of magistrates’ constable Sam Plank and she now wander her hometown of
Cambridge in the same decade with university constable Gregory Hardiman.
www.susangrossey.com
Sherry Hostler
is the author of the contemporary psychological thrillers Hypnotic
and Free Fall. She also writes short stories, flash fiction and
carries out freelance work for magazines. She has written since childhood but
took her parents’ advice and got a ‘sensible’ job instead of pursuing her
literary passions. She finally took the plunge, writing her first
novel in 2020, and was glad she did as a month later it hit No. 2 in the Amazon
Suspense Thrillers List.
www.sherryhostler.com
S.J. Richards writes a
crime thriller series based in and around Bath in Somerset. His main
protagonist, Luke Sackville, is an ex-DCI now working in the private sector,
and the series mixes humour in with the murder and mayhem. There are four books
out so far with the 5th due to be published in August 2024.
www.sjrichardsauthor.com
Zoë Sharp
spent her childhood living aboard a catamaran on the northwest coast of
England. She opted out of mainstream education at twelve, and wrote her first
novel at fifteen. She began writing crime thriller fiction after receiving
death threats in the course of her work as a photojournalist, and has been
nominated for numerous awards. Her latest book concerns police corruption and
exploitation of the homeless: The Girl In The Dark, Bookouture,
March 2023.
www.zoesharp.com
Thank you for publicising this! I feel very privileged to be on a panel at CrimeFest 2024. And thank you for all your hard work promoting crime fiction and its creators.
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