Friday, 10 May
09:00 - 09:50
The Panel are Judi Daykin, Paul Durston,
Kate London, Stella Oni,
and the participating Moderator is Caro Ramsay.
Judi Daykin,
born in Yorkshire, has lived, worked and
made theatre in Norfolk for over forty years. She completed her MA in Creative
Writing (Crime Fiction) at the UEA in 2019 and joined Joffe Books in 2020. Her
DS Sara Hirst novels are gritty police procedurals set in Norfolk amongst the
people, villages and special venues that Judi loves. Book six,
The Wild
Thyme Farm Murder, was released in April 2024.
Paul
Durston, a former operational police officer in the Met, was frequently in trouble for getting the procedures wrong. Now retired, he
writes crime fiction and is still getting the procedures wrong. Diamond Crime has
published
If I Were Me and
If We Were One, psychological
thrillers about an operation police officer who is having memory issues. Paul
has just started on the third in this trilogy.
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.
Stella Oni’s
debut police procedural, Deadly Sacrifice, featuring detective Toks
Ade, was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize. She has contributed to
various publications like Mystery Readers Journal and short
stories in anthologies including Midnight Hour published by
Crooked Lane. She is writing book two of the Toks Ade Mystery series, and
book 1 of The London House Mystery series, her contemporary crime cosy.
Stella is an International Thriller Writers and Jhalak Prize 2024 judge.
www.stellaonithewriter.com
Caro Ramsay
started her career writing the Anderson and Costello novels. She now enjoys
writing the Christine Caplan series, the second of which In Her Blood was
published in August 2023. Out of the Dark will be published in
August 2024. As well as writing, Caro plays the lead role in Carry On
Sleuthing, an acting company of crime writers who push the boundaries of comedy
i.e. their plays are beyond a joke.
www.caroramsay.com
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