Friday, 16 May 2025
11:20 - 12:10
The Panel are Cathy Ace, Simon Brett,
Nev Fountain, Zoe Sharp,
and the participating Moderator is Barbara Nadel.
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.
Simon Brett
has published over a hundred books, many of them crime novels, including the
Charles Paris, Fethering, Mrs Pargeter, Blotto & Twinks and Ellen Curtis
series. In 2014 he received the Crime Writers’ Association’s highest award, the
Diamond Dagger, and in 2016 he was awarded an OBE ‘for services to
literature’. simonbrett.com
Nev Fountain
is an
award-winning writer, known for his work on Dead Ringers. He has also
contributed to many other programmes, including Have I Got News for You,
and is a gag writer for Private Eye. He has written six murder-mystery
novels: a trilogy called 'The Mervyn Stone Mysteries', a ‘serious’ thriller,
entitled Painkiller and The Fan Who Knew too Much which was
released by Titan books. Lies and Dolls, will be released this year.
Zoë Sharp
spent her childhood living aboard a catamaran on the northwest coast of
England. She opted out of mainstream education at twelve, and wrote her first
novel at fifteen. She began writing crime thriller fiction after receiving
death threats in the course of her work as a photojournalist, and has been
nominated for numerous awards. Her latest series has an ex-copper and an ex-con
artist investigating police corruption and a possible miscarriage of justice.
Barbara Nadel is the author of the Cetin Ikmen series of
crime novels, adapted for TV as The Turkish Detective on BBC2. She also
writes the Hakim and Arnold crime fiction series, set in east London. Her
latest Ikmen book, The Wooden Library is due to be published in May 2025
while her most recent Hakim and Arnold, The Golem of East Ham, was
published in February 2025.
Contact @barbaranadel.bsky.social
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