Published by Liquid Mind Publishing, 8 January 2024. ISBN: 978-1-68533289-1 (PB) “Savage looked toward the mountains, but it was impossible to see where the ranch land ended, and the hills began…” For the last three days there has been heavy snowfall in Hawk’s Landing, South Colorado.  It’s created a picture postcard landscape but is the last thing the town’s struggling farmers and businesses need and it’s causing all manner of trouble for Sheriff Dalton Savage. The officer, his wife Becca and baby Conor are still settling into their new property, Apple Tree Farm, and after a long shift ..read more

 Saturday, 11 May13:40 - 14:30 The Panel are Guy Morpuss, Rachel North, Teri Terry,  and the participating Moderator is Vaseem Khan Guy Morpuss writes speculative crime fiction: twist one aspect of the real world, add a dead body, and play with the consequences. His debut novel, Five Minds, is about five people sharing one body, one of whom is trying to murder the others. His second novel, Black Lake Manor, is a locked room murder mystery with a killer who can unwind time. Before taking up full-time writing Guy worked as a barrister in London. www.guym ..read more

I was at a conference at the weekend and someone said 'are there any mysteries set at conferences'. I have found a few ..read more

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