CrimeFest: Leaving the Scene: CrimeFest Anthology Panel

    Friday, 16 May 2025

13:40 - 14:30

The panel are Cathy Ace, Jane Burfield,
Peter Guttridge, Maxim Jakubowski, 
and the participating Moderator is Donna Moore.

Cathy Ace writes the Cait Morgan Mysteries (Eve Myles will star in the forthcoming TV adaptations by Free@LastTV), and the WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries. Her work has won Canada’s Bony Blithe, CrimeFictionLover’s Best Indie, IPPY and IBA Awards, and has been twice shortlisted for the CWC’s Awards. She migrated to Canada from Wales aged forty, is a Past Chair of Crime Writers of Canada, and also belongs to Sisters in Crime and the Crime Writers Association.

cathyace.com 

Jane Burfield is an award-winning author of short fiction. She loves to show the darkness that lurks behind the facade of sweet domesticity and respectability. Her story, ‘There Be Dragons’, was a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Short Stories.

Peter Guttridge has been a regular at CrimeFest since it began. He writes, he interviews more famous writers, this year he will have published a smuggler novel and a non-crime novel, Struggletown. He laments the end of the best crime fiction festival in the world.

Maxim Jakubowski worked for many years in book publishing, owned the Murder One bookstore in London and now writes, edits and translates full-time. He is the author of twenty-one novels, the latest being Just A Girl With A Gun, six short story collections including Death Has A Thousand Eyes, over one-hundred anthologies and is a Sunday Times bestselling author under another name and in another genre. He is a past Chair of the Crime Writers' Association.

maximjakubowski.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