CrimeFest: Debut Authors: An Infusion Of Fresh Blood

 Saturday, 17 May 2025

09:00 - 09:50

The panel are Roger Corke, Kingsley Pearson,
Lynne Marie Taylor,  TBA, 
and the participating Moderator is Donna Moore.

Roger Corke is a TV journalist who travelled the world, making investigative documentaries for the BBC’s Panorama, ITV’s World In Action and Channel 4’s Dispatches. His debut crime thriller, Deadly Protocol, was published in September to lavish praise from fellow crime authors – far greater than he dared to hope! It's the ultimate medical conspiracy: a scientist working on medicine's Holy Grail - a cure for cancer - is brutally murdered. Who killed him and why? 

rogercorkeauthor.com  

Kingsley Pearson works as a Clinical Psychologist in digital mental health. He is a mixed-race British gay man, all of which influences his approach to writing. Flat 401 is his debut, and prior to publication was shortlisted for the 2022 Mo Siewcharran and Joffe Books Prizes, and longlisted for the 2023 Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers Prize.

klpearson.net 

Lynne Marie Taylor was born in Malta and has lived in NW London, York, Germany, Bristol and Worcester. She now lives in Corsham, Wiltshire, with her husband and their Springer Spaniel, Sam. Her debut crime novel Death in Valletta was published by Bloodhound Books in April 2024. Set in Malta in 1880, it features Detective Inspector Sam McQueen from the Edinburgh Police. She is currently working on the second novel in the series, also set in Malta. 

lynnemtaylorauthor.co.uk 

Donna Moore is the author of crime fiction and historical fiction. Her first novel, a private eye spoof called 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, is set in Victorian and Edwardian Scotland and the follow-up, The Devil’s Draper, set in 1919, was published in May 2024. 

donnamooreauthor.com