Saturday, 17 May 2025
14:50 - 15:40
The panel are Ruth Dudley Edwards, Kate Ellis,
Alison Joseph, L.C. Tyler,
and the participating Moderator is Martin Edwards.
Ruth Dudley Edwards is a journalist and prize-winning historian. In
her twelve satirical crime novels she ridicules political correctness: her
targets include academia, gentlemen’s clubs, the House of Lords, literary
prizes and conceptual art. As well as the CWA Non-fiction Gold Dagger for Aftermath:
the Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice, she won the
CrimeFest Last Laugh Award for Murdering Americans and CrimeFest’s
Goldsboro Last Laugh Award for Killing the Emperors.
Kate Ellis
was born in Liverpool and she is the author of an acclaimed trilogy set in the
aftermath of WW1 as well as a, recently reissued, spooky detective series
featuring DI Joe Plantagenet. She is, however, best known for her novels that
blend mystery with history and feature archaeology graduate DI Wesley Peterson.
Her latest in this series is Coffin Island. She was awarded the CWA Dagger in
the Library in 2019.
kateellis.co.
Alison Joseph
is a crime writer and radio dramatist, author of the Sister Agnes series of
novels. The most recent is A Poisoned Chalice, (2024). Sister Agnes also
features in a radio drama ‘Sister Agnes Investigates,’ starring Anne-Marie
Duff, available via Penguin Audio. Other radio work includes dramatisations of
Simenon’s Maigret novels. She has also written three novellas featuring Agatha
Christie as a detective. Alison was Chair of the British Crime Writers’
Association 2013 – 2015. L.C. Tyler
is a former chair of the CWA and the author of two detective series. He has won
the CWA Short Story Dagger, the CrimeFest Goldsboro Last Laugh Award (twice)
and been shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards and the CWA Historical
Dagger. His latest book (2024) is The Three Deaths of Justice Godfrey. He has
lived and worked all over the world - but most recently in London and West
Sussex.
Martin Edwards’ novels include the Lake District Mysteries and the Rachel Savernake books, most recently Hemlock Bay. His non-fiction includes a multi-award-winning history of Golden Age fiction, The Golden Age of Murder, the expanded second edition of which has just been published. He has received three Daggers, including the CWA Diamond Dagger, two Edgars, three CrimeFest Keating awards, and four lifetime achievement awards. He is consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics and President of the Detection Club.
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