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Friday, 25 April 2025

CrimeFest: Historical Fiction: Medieval Villainy and Renaissance Violence

 Friday, 16 May 2025

17:10 - 18:00

The panel are Tom Harper, David Penny,
L.C. Tyler, G.J. Williams, 

and the participating Moderator is Louise Mangos.

Tom Harper
is the international bestselling author of thirteen thrillers and adventure novels, including Lost Temple and Black River. He has also co-written five books with the late Wilbur Smith, most recently Warrior King. Research for his novels has taken him all over the world, from the jungles of Peru to the high Arctic. He is a former Chair of the Crime Writers' Association, and lives in York with his wife and two sons.

David Penny
is the author of the Thomas Berrington Historical Mysteries set in Moorish Spain and the early Tudor period. David’s work is available in eBook, print and audio, as well as translations into Spanish and German. He also writes the Izzy Wild contemporary police thrillers, and the Unit-13 WWII Paranormal Spy Thrillers.

L.C. Tyler is a former chair of the CWA and the author of two detective series. He has won the CWA Short Story Dagger, the CrimeFest Goldsboro Last Laugh Award (twice) and been shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards and the CWA Historical Dagger. His latest book (2024) is The Three Deaths of Justice Godfrey. He has lived and worked all over the world - but most recently in London and West Sussex.

G.J. Williams
is author of The Tudor Rose Murders Series – historical murder mysteries that take real Tudor events and people, then throw in a plot and bodies. Her debut, The Conjuror’s Apprentice, was published in 2023; the second in the series, The Wolf’s Shadow, hit the shelves in 2024 and the third, The Cygnet Prince, is scheduled for launch in June 2025. The series has been now been selected for distribution in the USA. 

Louise Mangos writes award-winning psychological suspense, historical mysteries, and short fiction. Her latest psychological whodunnit Five Fatal Flaws was shortlisted in the Page Turner Awards. She holds a Masters in Crime Writing from the University of East Anglia in the UK. She currently lives at the foot of the Swiss Alps with her Kiwi husband and two sons where she enjoys skate skiing in winter and wild swimming in summer. 

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