Published by Canelo, 11 April 2024. ISBN: 978-1-80436-507-6 (PB) Gated communities always seem to have an air of mystery. Who are they trying to exclude? What do they have to hide? What dark secrets are lurking behind closed doors? Wolf’s Pit hasn’t always been a gated community. It used to be a small village of old houses, where everyone knew each other. Vivacia Williams has lived there all her life, first with her mother, then later a few doors away with her husband in the house her grandmother owned and gave to her. To her, Vivacia; not to her husband, chancer Charles Lomax. It was Lomax w ..read more

Published by Pan, 31 August 2023. ISBN: 978-1-5098- 9928-9 (PB) Set against a background of unstoppable climate change, White Fire, is an extraordinary, easy to read, impossible to put down, thought-provoking thriller. Scott Pearce, Kyle Wollerton, and Leila Nahum form a close team of outstanding security operatives funded by billionaire Huxley Blaine Carter.  They are three thinking, feeling people whose task is to disrupt/eliminate the leaders of powerful interest groups who have willfully harnessed and fostered the frustrations of genuine environmental groups.  Lack of action aga ..read more

Published by Allison & Busby, 21 March 2024. ISBN: 978-0-7490-3051-3 (HB) If you are a police procedural fan, then don’t miss this one. No one does it better than Grahame Bartlett. Bartlett himself is a former murder detective from Brighton, where his books are set, so we can be assured the bones of the book are one hundred percent factually perfect. This is the third book in his series, featuring Detective Chief Superintendent Jo Howe. Jo has lost her sister to a drug overdose and is on a mission to clean the town up from drugs. Hence Operation Eradicate is formed. Its mission is to get ..read more

Published by Thomas & Mercer, 1st February 2024. ISBN: 978-166250049-7 (HB) The opening pages of The Bad Weather Friend describe a large, heavy box being collected from a warehouse in Florida, USA.  The package is a gift from Colonel Talmadge Clerkenwell to his nephew Benjamin Catspaw who lives on the west coast.  Apparently, the shipment contains books, but the freight handlers suspect it may be some sort of illegal cargo. Truth is that the load is far more mysterious. In California, meanwhile, Benny, as the Colonel’s nephew is known, arrives at the real estate office where he ..read more

Published by Constable, 2 May 2024. ISBN 978-1-4087-1557-4 (PB) Daniel and his father-in-law, head of the Bologna-based family firm of private investigators, are requested to attend the reading of the will of the late Giorgio Chiesa where they discover that the old man has bequeathed up to a third of his inheritance to investigate the death of his youngest son Fabrizio who died in a car crash seven years earlier. Although the cause of death was ruled as an accident, the old man had always been convinced that his son had been murdered. Fabrizio had been an F1 driver, seen as a potential champi ..read more

Published by Canelo, 18 April 2024. ISBN: 978-1-80436489-5 (PB) Stevie Gordon had a traumatic childhood; her mother was obsessed with cleanliness and would put bleach in her daughter’s food to rid of any “badness”. This led to the young girl being taken into care. She is a teacher now, but the effects of her troubled childhood are still clear. She has bouts of heavy drinking after which her mind is a blank and has regular sessions with a psychiatrist. She thought a while back her world had turned around, things were getting better, she dated James and really loved him. Then he broke the relat ..read more

Published by Boldwood Books, 26 January 2024. ISBN: 978-1-80483-146-5 (PB) Sophie Sayers and her boyfriend, Hector Munro, have just returned to the village of Wendlebury Barrow after a holiday in Scotland visiting Sophie’s parents. Although they have only been away for a week quite a lot has happened in the village. Sophie is delighted to hear that her friend, Carol, the local shopkeeper, has just got engaged and is sporting an enormous diamond ring, but like the rest of the village she is angry and dismayed to discover that the local bus service, the aptly named Highwayman bus company has de ..read more

  Friday, 10 May09:00 - 09:50 The Panel are Judi Daykin, Paul Durston, Kate London, Stella Oni, and the participating Moderator is Caro Ramsay. Judi Daykin, born in Yorkshire, has lived, worked and made theatre in Norfolk for over forty years. She completed her MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at the UEA in 2019 and joined Joffe Books in 2020. Her DS Sara Hirst novels are gritty police procedurals set in Norfolk amongst the people, villages and special venues that Judi loves. Book six, The Wild Thyme Farm Murder, was released in April 2024.  Paul Durston,  a ..read more

  Sunday, 12 May10:40 - 11:30 The Panel are Jane Adams, Dolores Gordon-Smith, T.E. Kinsey, Ada Moncrieff, and the participating Moderator is Kate Ellis. Jane Adams is an accidental crime writer, now author of almost fifty novels across several series. They range from historical with Henry Johnstone, set between the two World Wars. Procedural, in company of DI Mike Croft, cosy with Rina Martin and all points in between. She is currently published by Severn House and Joffe Books and reads and mentors for The Literary Consultancy. When not playing with words she likes to gar ..read more

  Sunday, 12 May09:30 - 10:20 The Panel are Nikki Copleston, Abby Davies, Susan Grossey, Sherry Hostler, S.J. Richards, and the participating Moderator is Zoe Sharp. Nikki Copleston had a career as a librarian in North London, before moving to Somerset in 2012 to devote more time to writing. She has published five DI Jeff Lincoln police procedurals, set in Wiltshire, and won a couple of short story competitions. She also enjoys writing and performing flash fiction and poetry.  www.nikkicopleston.com  Abby Davies writes psychological thrillers with a hint horr ..read more