Thursday 9 May
17:00 - 17:50
The Panel are Ajay Chowdhury, Kate Ellis,
Alex North, Jeffrey Siger,
and the participating Moderator is Sam Holland
Ajay Chowdhury, a tech entrepreneur and theatre
director, was the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker–Bloody Scotland
prize. The Waiter, the first in his critically-acclaimed series
about Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who moved to Brick Lane, is
being adapted for television. The Cook, a Sunday Times and Guardian
Crime Book of 2022, deals with homelessness. The Detective, about
government surveillance and AI, was a Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year,
2023. The Spy was published in April 2024 is set in London and Kashmir and is
about Kamil’s infiltration of a terrorist organisation and his dilemma when he
starts to agree with their goals.
www.ajaychowdhury.com
Kate Ellis
was born in Liverpool and she is the author of an acclaimed trilogy set in the
aftermath of WW1 as well as a, recently reissued, spooky detective series
featuring DI Joe Plantagenet. She is, however, best known for her novels that
blend mystery with history and feature archaeology graduate DI Wesley Peterson.
Her latest in this series is The Killing
Place. She was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library in 2019.
www.kateellis.co.uk
Alex
North was born in Leeds, England, where he
now lives with his wife and son. His novel The Whisper Man was
inspired by North's own little boy, who mentioned one day that he was
playing with "the boy in the floor." and is an international
bestseller that is currently being adapted for film. His latest novel is The
Shadow Friend. Alex North is a British crime writer who has
previously published under another name.
Jeffrey Siger
fled his position as a name partner in his own NYC law firm to write
Greece-based mystery thrillers on Mykonos. The New York Times picked him
as Greece’s thriller novelist of record, and Reader’s Digest Select Editions
described him as among its “new favorite authors.” He’s received Lefty and
Barry “Best Novel” nominations for his CI Andreas Kaldis series, been Chair of
Bouchercon, and served as an adjunct college professor teaching mystery
writing.
www.jeffreysiger.com
Sam Holland
is the award-winning author of the Major Crimes series, following detectives as
they investigate murders committed by brutal serial killers in the south of
England.
The Puppet Master will be published in May. She also
writes as Louisa Scarr, and a new series, about a police dog handler, will
launch in July 2024 with
Gallows Wood. Sam can be found on
Instagram and Twitter at @samhollandbooks.
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