Sunday, 12 May
09:30 - 10:20
The Panel are Elizabeth Chakrabarty, C. V. Chauhan,
Stephen Edger/M.A. Hunter, Jen Faulkner,
and the participating Moderator is Alison Bruce
Dr Elizabeth
Chakrabarty was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and
shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize in 2022 for her novel Lessons in
Love and Other Crimes, published in 2021 by the Indigo Press with her essay
On Closure and Crime. An interdisciplinary writer of fiction, poems and
essays, she was also shortlisted in 2022 for a short story published in The
Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction 2022: Crime Stories (Comma Press).
Instagram: @elizabethchakrabarty. Twitter: @DrNChakrabarty.
www.elizabethchakrabarty.com
C.V.
Chauhan is the
creator of the crime thrillers set in Leicester, featuring DI Rohan Sharma. The
first book in the series, The Dance of Death was published in
August 2022 and the second, Shattered Dreams in March 2023.
The third, Tripswitch will be published in early May 2024.
Champak graduated from the University of York, taught history in London and
Birmingham, and worked in state education at a senior level. He now writes
full-time.
M.A. Hunter
(who also writes crime as Stephen Edger) is the prolific author of
psychological thrillers, including Adrift, The Trail and Mummy’s
Little Secret. In his latest thriller, Every Step You Take
(published by Boldwood Books in March 2024), a London Marathon runner realises
her stalker is also competing and must figure out who he is and what he wants
before her race ends prematurely. Website: www.stephenedger.com/m-a-hunter
Jen Faulkner,
after being a teacher for fifteen years, completed an MA in Creative Writing at
Bath Spa University, where she was shortlisted for the Janklow and Nesbitt
Prize. When she is not writing she can usually be found back in the classroom,
or out walking by the sea. What Goes Around is her second novel. She’s
currently writing her next novel, about how coincidences aren’t always what
they seem.
www.jenfaulkner.co.uk
Alison Bruce, acclaimed for her gripping crime novels, introduced Detective DC Gary Goodhew in Cambridge Blue (2008). With intricate plots and vivid characters, she has written seven Goodhew novels. Bruce’s commitment to realism, bolstered by her studies in crime and investigation, continues with her two standalone novels, I Did it for Us and The Moment Before Impact. The first in the Ronnie Blake series, Because She Looked Away, will be published in 2024. www.alisonbruce.com
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