Saturday, 17 May 2025
11:20 - 12:10
The panel are Cathy Ace, Ajay C,
A.J. Hill, Bryan J. Mason,
and the participating Moderator is Orlando Murrin.
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.
Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill
Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His
first novel in the Kamil Rahman series – The Waiter (Sunday
Times Crime Book of the Month) was optioned fo r television. Its follow ups
– The Cook (Guardian Top Crime Books of the
Year), The Detective(Sunday Times Top Crime Books of the
Year), The Spy (Longlisted Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing),
and The Shadow – came out to strong reviews.
A.J. (Andy) Hill
is a former Customs and Police Officer, now working in property. Dead
Drift and Bloody
Butcher are the first two in his New Forest crime series, featuring ex-DI
Jack Lunn and former Captain in Military Intelligence, Gemma Bryce. Book three
is written, as is a country house murder mystery/reality TV mash up standalone
and he’s over halfway into Jack & Gem book four, which is a cold case
dating back to 1944. Bryan J. Mason
has been a financial forensic investigator, a mediator and made sound effects
for BBC radio. It took him thirty years to become a published author, but he is
now a full-time writer specialising in black comedy crime. His current series,
set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, began with An Old Tin Can
followed by Dead On published in July. He also writes regular theatre
reviews.
Orlando Murrin has written six cookbooks, two crime novels and
is a columnist for Waitrose Weekend. His first venture into culinary crime, Knife
Skills For Beginners, was nominated for the McDermid Debut Award, the Crime
Fiction Lovers' Debut Award and Capital Crime's Debut of the Year. Murder
Below Deck came out in March, and sees chef Paul Delamare set sail on a
superyacht.
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