Friday, 16 May 2025
10:10 - 11:00
The Panel are Pam Lecky, Leslie Scase,
Lynne Marie Taylor, Bridget Walsh,
and the participating Moderator is Linda Stratmann
Pam Lecky
is published by Avon Books UK and Storm Publishing. She is the author of the
Sarah Gillespie WW2 espionage series (Avon Books UK), and the Victorian Lucy
Lawrence Murder Mysteries (Storm Publishing). Her standalone WW2 police
procedural Under A Lightning Sky was published last July. She is
currently working on a contemporary crime series set in her native Ireland. She
is a member of the CWA and HNS.
Leslie Scase is a former Customs and Excise officer, born
and educated in South Wales but now living in Shropshire. He is the author
of The Inspector Chard Mysteries, crime thrillers set in the heyday
of Victorian Britain. Flames of Anarchy is the fourth novel in
the series. His interests include military history, fly fishing, cooking, real
ale and football.
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.
Website: lynnemtaylorauthor.co.uk.
Bridget Walsh’s
obsessive interest in the weirder elements of nineteenth-century life has led
her to write a series of crime novels set in a down-at-heel Victorian London
music hall. The Tumbling Girl won the HWA Debut Crown and was
shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger. The third in the series, The
Spirit Guide, will be published in 2026. Bridget lives in the fine
city of Norwich with her husband and two dogs. Website: bridgetwalsh.co.uk
Linda Stratmann is the
author of three crime fiction series with Victorian settings. Her current
series The Early Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, features a youthful
Holmes, before he knew Watson, becoming the legendary detective. In the
Bayswater mysteries Frances Doughty combats wily criminals and prejudice
against lady detectives. In Brighton diminutive Mina Scarletti exposes
fraudulent spirit mediums. Linda’s thirty-seven books also include biography
and true crime, notably a history of nineteenth century poison murder.
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