CrimeFest 2024: Saturday 11 May: History's Untold Stories: The Joys of Historical Crime Fiction.

 Saturday, 11 May
11:20 - 12:10

The Panel are Martin Edwards, Kate Griffin,
Christina Koning, Abir Mukherjee,
and the participating Moderator is Donna Moore. 

Martin Edwards’ novels include the Lake District Mysteries and the Rachel Savernake books, most recently Sepulchre Street. His non-fiction includes a multi-award-winning history of crime fiction, The Life of Crime, the updated paperback edition of which has just been published. He has received three Daggers, including the Diamond Dagger, two Edgars, and four lifetime achievement awards. He is consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics and recently wrote an audio drama for Doctor Who. 

Martin Edwards - Martin Edwards Books  

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.

Christina Koning has worked as a journalist, reviewing fiction for The Times, and taught Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London. From 2013 to 2015, she was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. She won the Encore Prize in 1999 and was long-listed for the Orange Prize in the same year. Murder at Bletchley Park is the eighth novel in the Blind Detective series.

Abir Mukherjee is the bestselling author of the Wyndham & Banerjee novels set in colonial-era India. His books have been translated into fifteen languages and won various awards including the CWA Dagger for best Historical Novel and the Prix du Polar Européen. His first standalone thriller, Hunted is out in May. He also co-hosts the Red Hot Chilli Writers podcast which takes a wry look at the world of books, writing, and the creative arts.

www.abirmukherjee.com 

Donna Moore, CrimeFest’s co-host, also works as a literacy tutor for marginalised women and has a PhD in creative writing. Her first novel, Go To Helena Handbasket won the Lefty Award for most humorous crime fiction novel and her second novel, Old Dogs, was shortlisted for both the Lefty and Last Laugh Awards. Her third novel, The Unpicking, spanning three generations of ‘hysterical women’ who experience systemic corruption and injustice, was published in October 2023. 

www.donnamooreauthor.com