CrimeFest 2024: Saturday 11 May: Not in My Job Description: Crime-Solving Amateurs.

 Saturday, 11 May
11:20 - 12:10

The Panel are J.G. Goodhind, Ada Moncrieffe,
Kate Wells, Ovidia Yu,
and the participating Moderator is Dolores Gordon Smith 

J.G. Goodhind was born and raised in Bristol. Winner of the BBC New Writers Award she sold up, sailed away, qualified as a skipper and lived on a yacht for five years. The thirteenth book in the Honey Driver series is set in Bath. A bestseller in Germany, it reached the top 200 on amazon.com. May 2024 sees book fourteen, A Claim for Murder, being released by Joffe Books. J.G. Goodhind also writes as Lizzie Lane. 

www.lizzielane.com

Ada Moncrieff was born in London and has lived in Madrid and Paris. She studied English at Cambridge University, and has worked in theatre, publishing and as a teacher. She is the author of Murder Most Festive, Murder at the Theatre Royale and Murder at Maybridge Castle. She now lives and works in London. 

Kate Wells is the author of the Malvern Farm Mystery series, published by Boldwood books, which is inspired by her upbringing on the Worcestershire/Herefordshire border, and her time spent living and working on farms. When not writing, she is frequently found in a field talking to the sheep, or out on the Malvern Hills walking her border collie cross. She also writes books for children under the name Kate Poels.

 www.katewellscrime.co.uk

 Ovidia Yu is a Singapore based writer of Singapore based mysteries who’ll be travelling to the UK just for Crimefest. Her ‘tree’ books, The Angsana Tree Mystery, The Mimosa Tree Mystery, The Mushroom Tree Mystery, The Yellow Rambutan Tree Mystery are history mysteries and her ‘Aunty’ books, Aunty Lee’s Delights and Aunty Lee’s Chilled Revenge etc are contemporary foodie mysteries.

www.ovidiayu.com

Dolores Gordon-Smith lives in Greater Manchester and is the author of the Jack Haldean series set in 1920’s England, Serpent’s Eye, How to write a Classic Murder Mystery and two WW1 spy stories. Married with five daughters, a growing number of grandchildren and various dogs and cats, Dolores has been a teacher, a factory worker and the front end of a cow in a pantomime.  

www.doloresgordon-smith.co.uk