Thursday, 15 May 2025
13:30 - 14.20
The panel are Lee Child, Christina Koning,
Linda Mather, Fiona Veitch Smith,
and the participating Moderator is Sherryl Clark.
Lee
Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. It is said one of his
novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every
nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller
lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is
the recipient of many. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday
Honours.
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 longlisted for the
Orange Prize in the same year.
Murder at Bletchley Park
is the eighth novel in the Blind Detective series.
Linda Mather is the author of the Jo
and Macy Mysteries: Forecast Murder,
A Sign for Murder, Murder as Predicted,
The Hanged Man, A Future Murder
and Perfect House for Murder, all
published by Joffe Books and available
on Amazon. Linda has recently landed
a contract with Joffe for 3 books in a
police thriller series set in the New Forest. She is also
writing the next Jo & Macy Mystery.
Follow her on X
@ILindaMather, Instagram @lindamather.writer
Fiona Veitch Smith writes Golden Age mysteries
and historical fiction. Her debut crime novel in the Poppy Denby Investigates
series, The Jazz Files (re-released as A Front-Page
Murder), was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger 2016. Her latest
book, The Penford Manor Murders, (fourth in the Miss
Clara Vale Mysteries) was released in March. Fiona is formerly a
journalist and university lecturer and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne with her
partner and two border collies. Website: fiona.veitchsmith.com
Sherryl Clark
has three novels in the Judi Westerholme series published by Verve Books: Trust
Me, I'm Dead, Dead and Gone and Mad, Bad and Dead.
The first of these was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger. Many of her plot
ideas start with real crimes, including Melbourne's gangland wars, and grow
from there. Her most recent novel, Woman, Missing, is also set in
Melbourne and features PI Lou Alcott.
Sherryl Clark - Crime Writer of the Judi Westerholme Series and More Books
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