Capital Crime: Deception in Crime Fiction.

Leonardo St Paul's, London

LONDON STAGE  

 Friday 13 June 2025
12:45 - 13:35

Mark Edwards, Nicci French,  Erin Kelly, 
and the participating moderator Claire McGowan.
discuss dating games to serial killer ex-lovers,
unreliable witnesses to fooling the reader.

Mark Edwards writes psychological thrillers in which scary things happen to ordinary people. He has sold 5 million books since his first novel, The Magpies was published in 2013, and has topped the bestseller lists numerous times. His other novels include Follow You Home, The Retreat, In Her Shadow, Because She Loves Me, The Hollows and Here to Stay. He has also co-authored six books with Louise Voss. Originally from Hastings in East Sussex, Mark now lives in Wolverhampton with his wife.  

Nicci French is a pseudonym used by Sean French and Nicci Gerrard,  two London journalists who conceive and write together psychological thrillers.

Erin Kelly was born in London in 1976 and studied English at Warwick University. She has worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, specialising in women, health, sex and lifestyle.

Claire McGowan is the author of three crime novels with Headline Books and a former columnist for The Irish News and the Oxford Student. She has also written for The Times, the Guardian, Easy Living, the Bookseller, Stylist, the Dublin Herald, the Irish News, Candis magazine, and the Vagenda blog. She recently turned 32 but still sometimes can’t tell her left from her right in a hurry. 

Capital Crime Festival