I was at a conference at the weekend and someone said 'are there any mysteries set at conferences'. I have found a few, but for some reason this blog will not let me list them, If anyone would like the list email me and I will send it to you. mysterypeople@outlook.com     ..read more

 Saturday, 11 May11:20 - 12:10 The Panel are J.G. Goodhind, Ada Moncrieffe, Kate Wells, Ovidia Yu, and the participating Moderator is Dolores Gordon Smith  J.G. Goodhind was born and raised in Bristol. Winner of the BBC New Writers Award she sold up, sailed away, qualified as a skipper and lived on a yacht for five years. The thirteenth book in the Honey Driver series is set in Bath. A bestseller in Germany, it reached the top 200 on amazon.com. May 2024 sees book fourteen, A Claim for Murder, being released by Joffe Books. J.G. Goodhind also writes as Lizzie Lane.  ..read more

 Saturday, 11 May11:20 - 12:10 The Panel are Martin Edwards, Kate Griffin, Christina Koning, Abir Mukherjee, and the participating Moderator is Donna Moore.  Martin Edwards’ novels include the Lake District Mysteries and the Rachel Savernake books, most recently Sepulchre Street. His non-fiction includes a multi-award-winning history of crime fiction, The Life of Crime, the updated paperback edition of which has just been published. He has received three Daggers, including the Diamond Dagger, two Edgars, and four lifetime achievement awards. He is consulta ..read more

Saturday, 11 May09:00 - 09:50 The Panel are Michelle Kidd, Simon McCleave, Brian Price, Michael Stanley (Stan Trollip), and the participating Moderator is Martin Edwards Michelle Kidd is best known for the DI Jack MacIntosh and DI Nicki Hardcastle crime novels. After qualifying as a legal executive, she spent ten years practising civil and criminal litigation. However, the dream to write was never far away. In 2008 she began writing the first book in what would become the DI Jack MacIntosh series. Michelle currently works full-time for the NHS. She enjoys reading, wine and cats ..read more

Saturday, 11 May09:00 - 09:50 The Panel are Ruth Dudley Edwards, A. J. Hill, C.L. Miller, Marrisse Whittaker, and the participating Moderator is Cathy Ace Ruth Dudley Edwards is an historian and journalist. The targets of her satirical crime novels include academia, the civil service, the House of Lords, the Church of England, literary prizes and political correctness. She won CrimeFest’s Goldsboro Last Laugh Award for Murdering Americans (2008) and Killing the Emperors (2013), as well as the CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger for Aftermath: The Omagh Bombings and The Families’ Pursu ..read more

 Friday 10 May17:10 - 18:00 The Panel are Alison Bruce, Paul GitshamKate Griffin, Nell Pattison,and the participating Moderator is Kate London. Alison Bruce, acclaimed for her gripping crime novels, introduced Detective DC Gary Goodhew in Cambridge Blue (2008). With intricate plots and vivid characters, she has written seven Goodhew novels. Bruce’s commitment to realism, bolstered by her studies in crime and investigation, continues with her two standalone novels, I Did it for Us and The Moment Before Impact. The first in the Ronnie Blake series, Because She Looked ..read more

 Friday 10 May17:10 - 18:00 The Panel are Chris Curran, Antony Dunford Charles Harris, Christine Poulson  and the participating Moderator is Jeffrey Siger Chris Curran writes psychological suspense under her own name and also as Abbie Frost (The Guesthouse). She lives on the south coast of England, moving recently from Hastings, a location for several of her novels, to the fascinating Romney Marsh area. Her latest novel, When the Lights Go Out, is set in the atmospheric Forest of Dean and was inspired by her early, and spectacularly unsuccessful, acting career.  www ..read more

  Friday, 10 May16:10 - 16:50 The Panel are Emma Curtis, Caroline England, Laura Lipmann, Dan Malakin and the participating Moderator is Louise Mangos Emma Curtis lives in West London with her husband. Her children have left home. Emma's twelve years as a school secretary turned out to be the ideal foundation for a later career in writing domestic thrillers. Emma has published five titles with Transworld: One Little Mistake, When I Find You, The Night You Left, Keep Her Quiet and Invite Me In. Her latest thriller The Babysitter is published b ..read more

  Friday, 10 May10:10 - 11:00 The Panel are Mark Ellis, Felix Francis, Simon McCleave, Kaaron Warren and the participating Moderator is Caroline England Mark Ellis is the author of the acclaimed DCI Frank Merlin series set in World War Two London. Six books have been published so far and a fifth will be out in May. His third book, Merlin At War, was nominated for the CWA Historical Dagger Award. He is a member of Crime Cymru and Treasurer of  Gŵyl Crime Cymru Festival.               ..read more

The 2024 longlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced [8pm, April 20 at the CWA annual conference, Brighton]. Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century. Past winners of the prestigious Gold Dagger, which is awarded for the best crime novel of the year, include Ian Rankin, John le Carré, Reginald Hill, and Ruth Rendell. Authors in contention for the Gold Dagger this year in ..read more