Capital Crime Festival
£130.00 – £250.00
Capital Crime is bringing the best crime and thriller authors to London.
Join us in London in September 2019.
Click here for details of the inaugural festival schedule.
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Robert Harris
Author
Robert Harris is the author of twelve bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy – Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator – Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave...View Profile -
David Baldacci
Author
David published his first novel, Absolute Power, in 1996. The feature film adaptation followed, with Clint Eastwood as its director and star. In total, David has published 37 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers, and several have been adapted for film and television....View Profile -
Lynda La Plante
Author
Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and RDC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing – and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows. Her novels have all been international...View Profile -
John Connolly
Author
John Connolly is the Sunday Times, Irish Times and New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books. His body of works include the Charlie Parker novels, The Book of Lost Things and The Samuel Johnson Adventures. John Connolly is the first non-US author to win the Shamus Award. He has also won...View Profile -
Ann Cleeves
Author
Ann Cleeves is the author of over thirty critically acclaimed novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez who can now be found on television in ITV’s Vera and BBC One’s Shetland....View Profile -
Martina Cole
Author
Martina Cole’s debut novel Dangerous Lady, caused a sensation when it was published by Headline in 1992, and launched one of the bestselling fiction writers of her generation. Twenty-seven years later Martina is the undisputed queen of crime drama with twenty-four novels to her name of which fifteen...View Profile -
Ian Rankin
Author
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. Ian’s first novel Summer Rites remains in his bottom drawer, but his second novel, The...View Profile -
Don Winslow
Author
New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow has written twenty-one novels, including The Border, The Force, The Kings of Cool, Savages, The Winter of Frankie Machine and the highly acclaimed epics The Power of the Dog and The Cartel. The son of a sailor and a librarian, Winslow grew up with...View Profile -
Kate Atkinson
Author
Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her four bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. Her 2013 novel Life After Life won...View Profile -
Mark Billingham
Author
Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham. He began his career as an actor, his credits including small-screen greats such as Dempsey & Makepeace, Birds of a Feather, Juliet Bravo and four series of cult children’s classic Maid Marian And Her Merry Men. Whilst continuing his relationship...View Profile -
Mark Edwards
Author
Mark Edwards writes psychological thrillers in which scary things happen to ordinary people. His novels include The Magpies, Follow You Home and The Retreat. Mark has sold almost three million copies of his novels and had eight #1 bestsellers. He grew up on the south coast of England and now lives...View Profile -
Anthony Horowitz
Author
ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the bestselling teen spy, Alex Rider, and is also responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. Anthony has also written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The...View Profile -
Peter James
Author
Peter James is a UK No. 1 bestselling author, best known for writing crime and thriller novels, and the creator of the much-loved Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. With a total of 13 Sunday Times No. 1s under his belt, he has achieved global book sales of over 19 million copies to date, and has been...View Profile -
Simon Mayo
Author
Simon Mayo is one of Britain’s best-loved radio presenters. He is also the presenter of Simon Mayo’s Books of the Year podcast. Mad Blood Stirring is his first adult novel.View Profile -
Kate Mosse
Author
Kate Mosse is the bestselling author of eight novels & short story collections, including the No 1 multimillion selling Languedoc Trilogy – Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel – and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter, which she...View Profile -
Antonia Hodgson
Author
Antonia Hodgson, a former leading publisher in the UK, is already a CWA Dagger winner in her new career as a novelist. Antonia Hodgson’s first novel, The Devil in the Marshalsea, won the CWA Historical Dagger 2014 and was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year, the John Creasey...View Profile -
Steph McGovern
Journalist & Presenter
For over a decade Steph McGovern has reported on business and finance from around the world; from international summits to small business success stories. She is an established part of the BBC Breakfast team, covering business developments daily, and also regularly taking to the sofa as main co-host. During...View Profile -
Denise Mina
Author
Denise Mina is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice and was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2014. The Long Drop, her latest novel, won the McIlvanney...View Profile -
Robert Glenister
Actor
Robert Glenister’s theatre credits include: Alys Always at The Bridge Theatre, Moonlight and Night School as part of Jamie Lloyd’s Pinter at the Pinter season, Glengarry Glen Ross at the Playhouse Theatre, Great Britain and Blue Remembered Hills for the National Theatre, Noises Off ...View Profile -
Abir Mukherjee
Author
Abir Mukherjee is the bestselling author of the Sam Wyndham series of crime novels set in Raj-era India. His debut, A Rising Man, won the CWA Endeavour Dagger for best historical crime novel of 2017, was a Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, and Waterstones Thriller of the Month. His second novel, A...View Profile -
Leye Adenle
Author
Leye Adenle is the author of the award-winning Easy Motion Tourist, and When Trouble Sleeps and a contributor to Lagos Noir (Akashic Books, 2018) and Sunshine Noir (White Sun Books, 2016). His short story ‘The Assassin’ was shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger 2017. Leye is from a family of...View Profile -
Lisa Jewell
Author
LISA JEWELL was born in London in 1968. Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was published in 1999. It was the best-selling debut novel of the year. Since then she has published another sixteen novels, most lately a number of dark psychological thrillers, including The Girls and Then She Was Gone (both...View Profile -
Stuart Turton
Author
Stuart Turton is a freelance travel journalist who has previously worked in Shanghai and Dubai. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is the winner of the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel. It has also been shortlisted for the Best Debut Novel category in...View Profile -
Mari Hannah
Author
Mari Hannah is a multi-award-winning author whose authentic voice is no happy accident. A former probation officer, she lives in rural Northumberland with her partner, an ex-murder detective. Mari turned to script-writing when her career was cut short following an assault on duty. Her debut, The Murder...View Profile -
Catherine Steadman
Author & Actress
Catherine Steadman is an actress and writer based in North London. She has appeared in leading roles on British television as well as on stage in the West End, most recently in Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution in 2018. In 2016 she was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for her performance...View Profile -
Ruth Ware
Author
Ruth Ware is an international number one bestseller. Her thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10 and The Lying Game were smash hits, and she has appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the Sunday Times and New York Times. The film rights to all three books have...View Profile -
Paul Clayton
Author & Actor
Paul Clayton is best known to audiences for his appearance in five series of the award-winning Channel 4 comedy “Peep Show” and two series of the BAFTA winning “Him and Her” on BBC3. Most recently seen in The split, Holby City, This is Alan Partridge, Shakespeare and Hathaway, he will be seen...View Profile -
Fiona Barton
Author
Fiona Barton’s debut, The Widow, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has been published in thirty-five countries and optioned for television. Her second novel, The Child, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Born in Cambridge, Fiona currently lives in south-west France. Previously, she...View Profile -
John Curran
Author
John Curran wrote his doctoral thesis on the Golden Age of Detective Fiction at Trinity College, Dublin. For many years he edited the official Agatha Christie Newsletter and acted as consultant to the National Trust during the restoration of Greenway House in Devon. His books about Dame Agatha’s...View Profile -
Sarah Pinborough
Author
Sunday Times No.1 bestseller SARAH PINBOROUGH is the critically acclaimed and award-winning, adult and YA author. Her previous novel, Behind Her Eyes, has sold in 25 territories, been shortlisted for the Crime and Thriller Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller...View Profile -
Ben Aaronovitch
Author
Before becoming a bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch was a screenwriter for Doctor Who and a bookseller at Waterstones. He now writes full time, and every book in his Rivers of London series has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. He is published in 14 languages and has sold more than 2 million...View Profile -
Paul Burston
Author
Paul Burston is the founder and host of London’s award-winning LGBT+ literary salon Polari and founder and chair of The Polari First Book Prize. His debut thriller The Black Path was a WHSmith bestseller and longlisted for Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize. His latest book, The Closer I Get,...View Profile -
Robert Goddard
Author
Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire in 1954. He was educated at Price’s School Fareham, and Peterhouse, Cambridge where he read History. He unsuccessfully pursued various career options, finally spending ten years as a local government officer. Frustrated with a lot of contemporary fiction, he set...View Profile -
Sophie Hannah
Author
Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling crime fiction writer. Her crime novels have been translated into 34 languages and published in 51 countries. Her psychological thriller The Carrier won the Specsavers National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year in 2013. In 2014 and 2016, Sophie published...View Profile -
Sara Collins
Author
Sara Collins studied law at the London School of Economics and worked as a lawyer for seventeen years. In 2014 she embarked upon the Creative Writing Masters at Cambridge University, where she won the 2015 Michael Holroyd Prize of Re-creative Writing and was shortlisted for the 2016 Lucy Cavendish...View Profile -
Jack Flynn
Author
Jack Flynn is a lawyer in Boston and has worked pro bono on behalf of wrongly convicted individuals. He lives south of the city and writes on his daily commute across Boston Harbor.View Profile -
Stella Rimington
Author
Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography...View Profile -
Louise Candlish
Author
Louise Candlish is the Sunday Times bestselling author of twelve novels. Her thriller OUR HOUSE is a #1 bestseller in paperback, ebook and audiobook and is winner of 2019 British Book Awards – Crime & Thriller Book of the Year. Optioned for TV by ‘Death in Paradise’ producers Red...View Profile -
Charles Cumming
Author
Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. He was educated at Eton and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1994 with First Class Honours in English Literature. The Observer has described him as the best of the new generation of British spy writers who are taking over where John le Carré...View Profile -
Tom Bradby
Author
Tom Bradby is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of ITV’s News at Ten, and presenter of all recent overnight election and referendum programmes on ITV. In his first year in the job, he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the...View Profile -
Frank Gardner
Author
Frank Gardner is the BBC’s Security Correspondent, reporting for television and radio on issues of domestic and international security, notably on Islamist extremist related terrorism. A fluent Arabist, with a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies, he was previously the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent...View Profile -
Belinda Bauer
Author
Belinda Bauer grew up in England and South Africa and now lives in Wales. She worked as a journalist and a screenwriter before finally writing a book to appease her nagging mother. With her debut, Blacklands, Belinda was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year. She went on to win the...View Profile -
A A Dhand
Author
A.A. Dhand was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing. The history, diversity...View Profile -
Dreda Say Mitchell
Author
Dreda Say Mitchell is an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, campaigner, journalist and motivational speaker who grew up on a housing estate in London’s East End. She is the author of twelve novels, with her debut scooping The CWA’s John Creasey Dagger in 2005, the first time a Black British author...View Profile -
Alex North
Author
Alex North was born in Leeds, where he now lives with his wife and son. He studied Philosophy at Leeds University, and prior to becoming a writer he worked there in their sociology department. The Whisper Man is Alex’s first novel. It has been called ‘the best crime novel of the decade’, ‘mesmerising...View Profile -
David Mark
Author
DAVID MARK spent his years as a crime reporter walking the Hull streets that would become the setting and crime scenes for the McAvoy novels. His first book, Dark Winter was selected for the Harrogate New Blood panel and was a Richard & Judy pick. A Sunday Times bestseller, it was adapted for the...View Profile -
Jake Kerridge
Journalist
Jake Kerridge is a journalist, critic and interviewer. He has been the crime fiction critic of the Daily Telegraph since 2005 and is a prolific moderator at literary festivals. Twitter: @JakeKerridgeView Profile -
Ali Land
Author
Ali Land is the author of the Sunday Times best-seller Good Me Bad Me. After graduating from university with a degree in Mental Health, Ali Land spent a decade working as a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse in both hospitals and schools in the UK and Australia. Ali is now a full-time writer and...View Profile -
Imran Mahmood
Author
Imran Mahmood qualified as a Barrister in 1992 and has been in practice at the Common Law Bar ever since. He specializes in Legal Aid cases involving violent crimes as well as fraud and sexual offences. His debut novel You Don’t Know Me, which was a Radio 2 Book Club Choice, was published in...View Profile -
Rebecca Reid
Author
Rebecca Reid is a freelance journalist. She has a column for the Telegraph Women’s section, works for Metro Online and has written for Marie Claire, the Independent, the iPaper, The Guardian, Indy100, LOOK and the New Statesman among others. Rebecca is a regular contributor to Sky News...View Profile -
Vaseem Khan
Author
VASEEM KHAN first saw an elephant lumbering down the middle of the road in 1997 when he arrived in India to work as a management consultant. It was the most unusual thing he had ever encountered and served as the inspiration behind his series of crime novels. He returned to the UK in 2006 and now works...View Profile -
Antti Tuomainen
Author
Known as the ‘King of Helsinki Noir’, Finnish Antti Tuomainen is known for his piercing, poignant evocative thrillers, and his peculiar brand of dark humour. His books have been sold in 29 countries. The Man Who Died was an international bestseller, and The Times called Antti the ‘funniest...View Profile -
Rachel Abbott
Author
Rachel Abbott began her career as an independent author in 2011, with Only the Innocent, which became a No.1 bestseller on Kindle, topping the chart for four weeks. Since then, she has published five further psychological thrillers, plus a novella, and sold over 2.75 million copies. She is one of the...View Profile -
Karen Sullivan
Publisher
Karen Sullivan is publisher of Orenda Books, a small independent publisher specialising in literary fiction with a heavy emphasis on crime thrillers, and about half in translation. Authors include Ragnar Jonasson, Kjell Ola Dahl, Louise Beech, Lilja Sigurdardottir, Agnes Ravatn and Paul Burston. Orenda...View Profile -
Jenny Blackhurst
Author
JENNY BLACKHURST grew up in Shropshire where she still lives with her husband and children. Growing up she spent hours reading and talking about crime novels – writing her own seemed like natural progression. The Night She Died is Jenny‘s fourth novel.View Profile -
Jane Casey
Author
Jane Casey is no stranger to the crime world. Married to a criminal barrister, she’s got the inside track on some of the country’s most dangerous offenders, giving her writing an unsettlingly realistic feel. This authenticity has made her novels international bestsellers and critical successes....View Profile -
Steve Cavanagh
Author
Steve Cavanagh was born and raised in Belfast before leaving for Dublin at the age of eighteen to study Law. He currently practices civil rights law and has been involved in several high profile cases; in 2010 he represented a factory worker who suffered racial abuse in the workplace and won the largest...View Profile -
Fiona Cummins
Author
Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former Daily Mirror show-business journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing A Novel course. She lives in Essex with her family. The Neighbour is her third novel, following Rattle and The Collector.View Profile -
Chris Ewan
Author
Chris Ewan is the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of many mystery and thriller novels. Chris’s first standalone thriller, Safe House, was a number one bestseller in the UK and was shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. He is also the author of the thrillers Dead...View Profile -
Will Dean
Author
WILL DEAN grew up in the East Midlands, living in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. After studying at the LSE and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden with his wife. He built a wooden house in a boggy forest clearing at the centre of a vast elk forest, and it’s from this...View Profile -
K.J. Howe
Author
K.J. Howe is the executive director of ThrillerFest, the annual conference of the International Thriller Writers. Immersed in the world of kidnap and ransom for over six years, K.J.’s series showcases elite kidnapper Thea Paris in her efforts to bring hostages back home. THE FREEDOM BROKER received...View Profile -
Amy McLellan
Author
Amy is an author and freelance journalist, a job that has taken her around the world, from the midnight-sun of the Arctic Circle to the desert heat of Oman, from wind-swept North Sea oil rigs to the bustling bazaars of Tehran. Now based in Shropshire, where she lives with her husband and three children,...View Profile -
Simon Kernick
Author
Simon Kernick is one of Britain’s most exciting thriller writers. He arrived on the crime writing scene with his highly acclaimed debut novel The Business of Dying, the story of a corrupt cop moonlighting as a hitman. Simon’s big breakthrough came with his novel Relentless which was the biggest...View Profile -
Ragnar Jónasson
Author
RAGNAR JÓNASSON was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he works as a writer and a lawyer. He also teaches copyright law at Reykjavik University, and has worked as a TV news reporter for Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. He is the author of the DARK ICELAND series (Snowblind, Nightblind, Blackout,...View Profile -
Erin Kelly
Author
Erin Kelly is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Poison Tree, The Sick Rose, The Burning Air, The Ties That Bind, He Said/She Said, Stone Mothers and Broadchurch: The Novel, inspired by the mega-hit TV series. Her last novel He Said/She Said spent six weeks in the top ten in both hardback and...View Profile -
Chris Ryan
Author
Chris Ryan is a former SAS corporal and was the only man to escape death or capture during the Bravo Two Zero operation in the 1991 Gulf War. Chris Ryan turned to writing thrillers to tell the stories that the Official Secrets Act stops him putting into his non-fiction. His novels have inspired the Sky...View Profile -
Stav Sherez
Author
Stav Sherez is the author of The Devil’s Playground (2004), described by James Sallis as ‘altogether extraordinary’, and which was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasy Dagger Award, The Black Monastery (2009) described as ‘spectacular’ by Laura Wilson in the Guardian,and...View Profile -
William Clegg QC
Lawyer
WILLIAM CLEGG QC is a lawyer in England specialising in serious crime. He is head of chambers at 2 Bedford Row and has fought more than 100 murder cases – more than anyone else currently practising at the English Bar.View Profile -
Gary Bell QC
Author
Born into a coal mining family, Gary Bell QC left school without any qualifications and was an apprentice mechanic, fork lift truck driver, production line worker, builder, fireman and door-to-door salesman, as well as a notorious football hooligan, before being arrested for fraud aged 18. After...View Profile -
Lesley Kara
Author
Lesley Kara is an alumna of the Faber Academy ‘Writing a Novel’ course. She lives on the North Essex coast. Her first novel, The Rumour, was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller.View Profile -
Victoria Selman
Author
Victoria’s first novel, ‘Blood for Blood’ was shortlisted for the 2017 Debut Dagger Award and she is a #1 bestseller. Her second novel, ‘Nothing to Lose’ will be published in March. She has written for The Daily Express and Ham & High newspapers and in 2013 she won the Full Stop Short...View Profile -
Dominic Nolan
Author
Dominic Nolan lives in London. PAST LIFE is his debut novel.View Profile -
Christopher Fowler
Author
Christopher Fowler is the author of more than forty novels (sixteen of which feature the detectives Bryant and May and the Peculiar C rimes Unit) and many short story collections. A multiple award-winner, including the coveted C WA ‘Dagger in the Library’, Chris has also written screenplays, video...View Profile -
Lizzy Barber
Author
Lizzy Barber studied English at Cambridge University, has previously worked as an actress and is now the head of brand and marketing for a restaurant group. Lizzy wrote her debut novel My Name is Anna on her commute, and went on to beat out 5,000 entries to be the unanimous winner of the Daily Mail...View Profile -
Joe Haddow
Event Host and Writer
Joe Haddow is a Producer, Podcaster, Event Host and Writer. As well as being the voice of the Man Booker Prize, he also hosts the Book Off podcast and can be seen chairing literary events up and down the country. He is the producer of The Radio 2 Book Club, and several award-winning radio shows and documentaries. Joe...View Profile -
Adam Hamdy
Author
Adam Hamdy is a British screenwriter and author who works with production companies and studios on both sides of the Atlantic. He is the author of the Pendulum trilogy. The first book in the series was nominated for the Glass Bell Award for contemporary fiction and was selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book...View Profile -
Emma Kavanagh
Author
Emma Kavanagh trained as a psychologist and after leaving university, started her own business as a psychology consultant, specialising in human performance in extreme situations. For seven years she provided training and consultation for police forces and NATO and military personnel throughout the UK...View Profile -
Ayo Onatade
Ayo Onatade is a freelance crime fiction critic and blogger. She has written articles and papers on different aspects of crime fiction. She was a contributor to British Crime Writing: An Encyclopaedia (2008) edited by Barry Forshaw and The American Thriller (Critical Insights) (2014) edited by Gary Hoppenstand....View Profile -
Graham Bartlett
Writer, Crime & Procedure Advisor
Graham Bartlett co-authored, with Peter James, the 2016 Sunday Times Best Seller, ‘Death Comes Knocking – Policing Roy Grace’s Brighton.’ He is a crime and procedure advisor to numerous authors including Peter, Mark Billingham, Elly Griffiths and Dorothy Koomson. He also advises TV drama...View Profile -
Robert Bridgestock
Author
Robert Bridgestock makes up one half of the brilliant writing duo, R.C. Bridgestock. R.C. Bridgestock is the name that husband and wife co-authors Robert (Bob) and Carol Bridgestock write under. Between them they have nearly 50 years of police experience, offering an authentic edge to their stories....View Profile -
J.D. Fennell
Author
J.D. was born in Belfast at the start of the Troubles, and began writing stories at a young age to help understand the madness unfolding around him. A lover of reading, he devoured a diverse range of books – his early influences include Fleming, Tolkien, Shakespeare and the Brontës. He left Belfast...View Profile -
Amer Anwar
Author
Amer Anwar grew up in West London. After leaving college he had a variety of jobs, including warehouse assistant, comic book lettering artist, a driver for emergency doctors and chalet rep in the French Alps. He eventually landed a job as a creative artworker/graphic designer. He holds an MA in Creative...View Profile -
M W Craven
Author
Although he was born in Cumbria, M W Craven grew up in the North East before running away to join the army when he turned sixteen. After training as an armourer for two and a half years, he spent the next ten travelling the world having fun. In 1995 he left the army and completed a degree in social...View Profile -
L.C. Tyler
Author
L. C. Tyler was born in Essex and educated at Jesus College Oxford and City University. His comic crime series featuring author-and-agent duo Ethelred Tressider and Elsie Thirkettle has twice been nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Awards and he won the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award with Herring in the Library. His...View Profile -
Stephanie Marland
Author
Stephanie Marland has worked in the University sector for over ten years and published research on how people interact and learn together in virtual environments online. She’s an alumni of the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at City University London, and an avid reader of all things crime...View Profile -
Elly Griffiths
Author
Elly Griffiths was born in London. She worked in publishing before becoming a full-time writer. Her bestselling series of Dr Ruth Galloway novels, featuring a forensic archaeologist, are set in Norfolk. The series has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, and has been shortlisted three times for the Theakston’s...View Profile -
Olivia Kiernan
Author
Olivia Kiernan is an Irish writer living in the UK. She was born and raised in County Meath, near the famed heritage town of Kells and holds an MA in Creative Writing awarded by the University of Sussex. The Killer In Me is her second novel.View Profile -
Shaun Harris
Author
Shaun Harris grew up as the son of a homicide detective in Southern New England. He has a degree in American Studies and Film and Television from the University of Notre Dame. He now lives in rural Wisconsin with his wife and two kids.View Profile -
Barry Forshaw
Author
Barry Forshaw’s books include the Keating Award-winning Brit Noir and Nordic Noir; his speciality is crime fiction and film. Other work: Death in a Cold Climate, Sex and Film and the British Crime Writing encyclopedia (also a Keating Award winner). He writes for various newspapers and edits Crime Time...View Profile -
Colette McBeth
Author
Colette McBeth is the critically acclaimed author of psychological thrillers, Precious Thing and The Life I Left Behind. Her new book, An Act of Silence, about a mother faced with an impossible choice to save her son, is now available in paperback. Colette was a BBC TV News television correspondent...View Profile -
Amanda Jennings
Author
Amanda Jennings lives in Oxfordshire with her husband, three daughters, and a menagerie of animals. She studied History of Art at Cambridge and before writing her first book, was a researcher at the BBC. With a deep fascination for the far-reaching effects of trauma, her books focus on the different...View Profile -
Julia Crouch
Author
Julia Crouch has been a theatre director, playwright, teacher, graphic/website designer and double-entry book keeper. Believing she was a pictures person, she did an MA in Illustration, which had the unexpected effect of making her realise that, in fact, words are her thing. Since then she has been busy...View Profile -
Kate Rhodes
Author
Kate Rhodes was born in Greenwich, in South London, but now lives in Cambridge. She is a member of the crime writing group Killer Women, and an award-winning writer of crime fiction and poetry. She began her writing career as a poet, winning a Bridport Prize, and twice being shortlisted for the Forward...View Profile -
Tony Kent
Author
TONY KENT grew up in a close-knit Irish family in London and studied Law in Scotland. Before being called to the bar, Tony was a heavyweight amateur boxer when he won a host of national titles. Now one of the UK’s leading barristers, Tony is a regular figure at London’s Old Bailey, where his case...View Profile -
Sarah Hilary
Author
Sarah Hilary has worked as a bookseller, and with the Royal Navy. Her debut, Someone Else’s Skin, won Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year 2015 and was a World Book Night selection for 2016. The Observer’s Book of the Month (“superbly disturbing”) and a Richard & Judy Book Club bestseller,...View Profile -
Joseph Knox
Author
Joseph Knox was born and raised in and around Stoke and Manchester, where he worked in bars and bookshops before moving to London. He runs, writes and reads compulsively. His debut novel Sirens was a bestseller. The Smiling Man is the second in the DC Aidan Waits series.View Profile -
Anna Mazzola
Author
Anna Mazzola’s first novel, The Unseeing, was published to critical acclaim in 2016 and was the winner of the 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original. She is a criminal justice solicitor and lives in London with her husband and two children. You can find her on Twitter @Anna_Mazz...View Profile -
Craig Russell
Author
Craig Russell’s novels have been published in twenty-five languages, four have been made into major films in Germany, in one of which he has a cameo role as a detective. He has won the CWA Dagger in the Library and the McIlvanney Prize, for which he has been shortlisted another twice, and has previously...View Profile -
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Author
Laura Shepherd-Robinson was born in Bristol in 1976. She has a BSc in Politics from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics. Laura worked in politics for nearly twenty years before re-entering normal life to complete an MA in Creative Writing at City...View Profile -
Mel Sherratt
Author
Mel Sherratt is the author of thirteen crime novels, all of which have become bestsellers. For the past four years, she has been named as one of her home town of Stoke-on-Trent’s top 100 influential people. She also works alongside the National Literary Trust as an ambassador on The Literary Project,...View Profile -
Colin Sutton
Author
Colin Sutton was a Senior Investigating Officer in the Metropolitan Police from 2003 – 2011, leading more than 30 successful murder investigations, notably the Levi Bellfield case and the successful re-investigation of the 17-year reign of terror of the ‘Nightstalker’, Delroy Grant. Colin has...View Profile -
James Swallow
Author
James Swallow is a veteran author and scriptwriter with over 15 years of experience in fiction, television, radio, journalism, new media and videogames. He is the three-time New York Times bestselling author. He was nominated by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for his writing...View Profile -
C.J. Tudor
Author
C. J. Tudor was born in Salisbury and grew up in Nottingham, and has recently moved to Kent with her partner and young daughter. Her love of writing, especially the dark and macabre, started young. When her peers were reading Judy Blume, she was devouring Stephen King and James Herbert. Over the years...View Profile -
Harriet Tyce
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Harriet Tyce grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before doing a law conversion course at City University. She practised as a criminal barrister in London for nearly a decade. She is currently doing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She lives in north...View Profile -
Jean Levy
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Jean spent several years in genetics research before abandoning the laboratory to pursue a career in academic publishing both in Holland the UK. She has been a database trouble-shooter, an editor, and a writer for publishing houses, pharmaceutical companies and the EU. She has degrees in Botany, Pathology,...View Profile -
Charlotte Philby
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Charlotte Philby worked for the Independent for eight years, as a columnist, editor and reporter, and was shortlisted for the Cudlipp Prize at the 2013 Press Awards for her investigative journalism. Founder of the online platform Motherland.net, she regularly contributes to the Guardian and iNews,...View Profile -
Melanie Golding
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Melanie Golding is a recent graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, with distinction. Her short stories have been chosen to be recorded as podcasts by the Leicester-based festival Story City in 2015 and 2016, and to be performed at both the regular Stroud Short Stories event...View Profile -
Bev Thomas
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Bev Thomas was a clinical psychologist in the NHS for many years. She currently works as an organisational consultant in mental health and other services. She lives in London with her family. A Good Enough Mother is her debut novel.View Profile -
Charlotte Duckworth
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Charlotte Duckworth is a graduate of the Faber Academy’s acclaimed six-month ‘Writing a Novel’ course. She studied Classics at Leeds University and then completed a postgraduate diploma in magazine journalism. For the past 15 years she has worked as an interiors and lifestyle journalist,...View Profile -
Dominick Donald
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Dominick Donald studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford and served in the British Army before completing a War Studies PhD at King’s College London. He has been a guest lecturer on security-related issues, at the UK Defence Academy. At the UN he worked on the issue of children affected...View Profile -
Trisha Sakhlecha
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Trisha Sakhlecha grew up in New Delhi and now lives in London. She works in fashion and is a graduate of the acclaimed Faber Academy writing course. In the past, Trisha has worked as a designer, trend forecaster, and lecturer. Your Truth or Mine? is her first novel.View Profile -
Carolyn Kirby
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Carolyn’s debut novel The Conviction of Cora Burns was begun on a writing course at Faber Academy and went on to win the Bluepencilagency Award for unpublished novels. Published in March 2019 by No Exit Press the UK and Dzanc Books in North America, the novel has been getting praise from reviewers...View Profile -
Toby Faber
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Toby Faber was MD of Faber for four years and remains on the board; he is also chairman of Faber Music. He has written two highly praised works of non-fiction, Stradivarius and Fabergé s Eggs. Close to the Edge is his first novel. He lives in London with his family.View Profile -
Deborah O’Donoghue
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Deborah O’Donoghue studied English and French at the University of Sussex, and Performing Arts at the Sorbonne, before teaching for ten years. She has also worked in car body repairs, in the best fish and chip shop in Brighton, and as a gofer in a comedy club. Deborah was born in Plymouth and now...View Profile -
Vanessa Savage
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Vanessa Savage is a graphic designer and illustrator. She has twice been awarded a Writers’ Bursary by Literature Wales, most recently for her debut novel, The Woman in the Dark. She won the Myriad Editions First Crimes competition in 2016 and her work has been highly commended in the Yeovil International...View Profile -
Merilyn Davies
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Merilyn Davies is a former Crime Analyst with the Metropolitan Police who worked as part of the violent and hate crime unit for eight years. She was inspired to write about strong women working in the police force thanks to the incredible women she encountered on the force, and was fascinated to explore...View Profile -
Winnie M Li
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Winnie M Li is the author of Dark Chapter, a fictional retelling of her own rape from victim and perpetrator perspectives. It won The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize, and was shortlisted for an Edgar Award, the Best First Novel Award, the CWA Debut Dagger, and the SI Leeds Literary Prize. It has been...View Profile -
Holly Watt
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As an investigative journalist, Holly Watt was part of the team that broke the parliamentary expenses scandal. She also worked on the Panama Papers. Her debut novel To the Lions is out now. She has written for the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian. She lives in London. @holly_wattView Profile
