CrimeFest: Historical Fiction: When Society Meets Murder.

    Friday, 16 May 2025

16:00 - 16:50

The panel are Fliss Chester, T.E. Kinsey,
Pam Lecky, Fiona Veitch Smith,
and the participating Moderator is Dolores Gordon-Smith.

Fliss Chester writes cosy crime and is the author of seven books in the 1920s-set Hon Cressida Fawcett Mysteries series, published by Bookouture. The first book in the series, Death Among the Diamonds, recently went to number two in the free Kindle Amazon US chart. She also wrote the Fen Churche Mysteries series, set just after WW2, and is about to start a new modern-day cosy crime series, which will also be published by Bookouture this year. 

flisschester.co.uk

T.E. ‘Tim’ Kinsey was born in the 1960s. He grew up in London in the 1970s and went to university in Bristol in the 1980s. He worked in magazines in the 1990s, and for IMDb in the 2000s. He still lives near Bristol. He’s a mediocre drummer and a terrible guitarist. He’s responsible for the popular Edwardian cosy series The Lady Hardcastle Mysteries (published by Thomas & Mercer). 

tekinsey.uk 

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. 

pamlecky.com

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. 

fiona.veitchsmith.com 

Dolores Gordon-Smith is the author of the Jack Haldean murder mystery series set in 1920’s England, the latest of which is The Chapel in the Woods, published by Severn House, and two WW1 spy thrillers, Frankie’s Letter and The price of Silence. Married with five daughters, a growing number of grandchildren and various dogs and cats, Dolores has been a teacher, a civil servant and a shaker-out of Christmas puddings in a jam factory. 

doloresgordon-smith.co.uk