Lilja Sigurdardóttir

We are delighted to announce that our friend Lilja Sigurðardóttir is returning to #NewcastleNoir again this year.

Lilja was born in the town of Akranes in 1972 and raised in Mexico, Sweden, Spain and Iceland 🇮🇸 Her debut thriller, Snare, the first in the Reykjavik Noir series, hit bestseller lists worldwide. Trap was published in 2018, and a Book of the Year in the Guardian. The film rights for the series have been bought by Palomar Pictures. She lives in Reykjavík.

Vanda Symon

Vanda Symon lives in Dunedin, NZ 🇳🇿 and is the author of the Sam Shephard detective series as well as the standalone thriller The Faceless. She has just completed a PhD in the communication of science in crime fiction. She is a three-time finalist for the Ngaio Marsh award for best crime novel.

Mel Sherratt

Mel Sherratt is the author of twelve novels, all of which have become bestsellers. In 2018, she was named as one of her home town of Stoke-on-Trent’s top 100 influential people.

Jaqui Rose

Jacqui Rose is a novelist who lives in South Yorkshire, although she has lived in Soho. She has always written for pleasure but the ideas in her book have come from her own experiences.

G.D. Abson

G.D. Abson was born in County Durham, and developed an obsession with Russia after studying the revolution at school. The first of his crime series set in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, MOTHERLAND, was shortlisted for a CWA Debut Dagger and is a Times/ Sunday Times Crime Club *Star Pick*.

M. J. Arlidge

M. J. Arlidge is a novelist, screenwriter and producer. In 2014, his debut novel Eeny Meeny was a Sunday Times Bestseller and was the bestselling crime debut of the year. Seven subsequent Helen Grace novels have followed, all of them bestsellers. Matt writes regularly for hit BBC series Silent Witness and his first original piece for TV – Innocent – was ITV’s biggest drama of 2018 and starred Hermione Norris and Lee Ingleby.

Alan Parks

Alan Parks has worked in the music industry for over twenty years. His debut novel Bloody January was one of the top crime debuts of 2018 and was shortlisted for prestigious international crime prize the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He lives and works in Glasgow. February’s Son is the second Harry McCoy thriller.

Photo by Euan Robertson

CJ Tudor

C. J. Tudor’s 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 she has had a variety of jobs, including trainee reporter, radio scriptwriter, dog walker, voiceover artist, television presenter, copywriter and, now, author.

Her first novel, The Chalk Man, was a Sunday Times bestseller and has sold in over forty countries. The Taking of Annie Thorne is her second novel.

Nick Quantrill

Nick Quantrill was born and raised in Hull, an isolated industrial city in East Yorkshire. His trilogy of Private Investigator novels featuring Joe Geraghty are published by Fahrenheit Press and he’s hard at work on a fourth. Nick is also the co-founder of the Hull Noir festival.

M.W. Craven

M. W. Craven was born in Carlisle but grew up in Newcastle. He joined the army at sixteen, leaving ten years later to complete a social work degree. Seventeen years after taking up a probation officer role in Cumbria, at the rank of assistant chief officer, he became a full-time author.

Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley studied English Literature at Durham and UCL universities and worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry, before leaving to write full-time. The Hunting Party is her debut crime novel, inspired by a particularly remote spot in Scotland that fired her imagination.

Photo by Philippa Gedge.

Louise Beech

Louise Beech is an exceptional literary talent, whose perceptive novels have been Guardian readers’ picks, and shortlisted for Not the Booker Prize and the RNA’s Most Popular Romantic Novel. Her psychological thriller Call Me Star Girl is her first foray into crime fiction, and went to number two on the kindle chart on release. She lives in Hull.

Johana Gustawsson

Johana Gustawsson has worked as a journalist for the French and Spanish press and television. Her critically acclaimed Roy & Castells series (Block 46, Keeper and upcoming Blood Song) has won the Plume d’Argent, Balai de la découverte, Balai d’Or and Prix Marseillais du Polar awards, and is now published in nineteen countries, with a TV adaptation underway. Johana lives in London.

Noelle Holten

Noelle Holten is an award-winning blogger, a PR & Social Media Manager for Bookouture, and was a regular reviewer on the Two Crime Writers and a Microphone podcast. Noelle worked as a Senior Probation Officer for eighteen years, covering a variety of cases. Dead Inside is her debut novel with Killer Reads.

Paul Burston

Paul Burston is the author of six novels including the WH Smith bestseller The Black Path and his latest, The Closer I Get.

His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Times and other publications.

He is the curator of Polari literary salon and founder of The Polari First Book Prize.

Nicola Ford

Nicola Ford is the pen name of Dr Nick Snashall, Archaeologist for the Stonehenge & Avebury World Heritage Site. Through her day job and now her writing, she’s spent more time than most thinking about the dead. Her novel The Hidden Bones was praised, ‘as a cracking debut,’ and ‘top notch.’

Ed James

Ed James has written many crime fiction novels, chiefly the DI Fenchurch novels set on the gritty streets of East London, and the Scott Cullen series about a young Edinburgh detective. His next book is set in Seattle, WA, featuring Josh Nguyen of the FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Unit.

Mick Herron

Mick Herron’s first Jackson Lamb novel, Slow Horses, was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and picked as one of the best twenty spy novels of all time by the Daily Telegraph.

The second, Dead Lions, won the 2013 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger. The third, Real Tigers, was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year, and both the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.

The fourth, Spook Street, was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger and Theakston Old Peculiar and won the Steel Dagger. London Rules is the fifth. Mick Herron was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.

Madeleine Black

After decades of silence, Madeleine decided to share her story publicly online in September 2014 and she completely underestimated what the response would be.

She is passionate about speaking out to end the shame, stigma and silence surrounding sexual violence and to help others find their voice too.

Picture from Nicky Johnston.

Anna Mazzola

Anna Mazzola writes historical crime and Gothic fiction. Her debut novel, The Unseeing, which won an Edgar award, is based on the life of a woman convicted of aiding a murder in 1837.

Her second novel, The Story Keeper, follows a folklorist’s assistant as she searches out dark fairy tales and stolen girls on Skye.

Photo by Lou Abercrombie

Rachel Amphlett

Before turning to writing, USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett played guitar in bands, dabbled in radio as a freelance producer, and worked in publishing as an editorial assistant.

She writes crime fiction and spy novels, including the Dan Taylor novels and the Detective Kay Hunter British police procedurals.

Alison Belsham

In 2016, Alison Belsham won the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect competition with her fledgling idea for a serial killer novel. This went on to secure her both an agent and publishing deal, and The Tattoo Thief was published in 2018. Its sequel, Poison Ink will be hitting the shelves 2019.

Will Dean

Will Dean, author of Dark Pines and Red Snow, studied Law at LSE, and worked many varied jobs in London, before settling in rural Sweden with his wife.

He built a wooden house in a boggy forest clearing and it’s from this base that he compulsively reads and writes

Paul Hardisty

Canadian environmental engineer Paul E Hardisty is author of the critically acclaimed Claymore Straker series. His debut, The Abrupt Physics of Dying, was a Telegraph Book of the Year and shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger.

His latest standalone novel, Turbulent Wake, has been compared to John Updike. He lives in Australia.

Matt Wesolowski

Matt Wesolowski was a winner of the Pitch Perfect competition at Bloody Scotland in 2015, and his debut thriller, Six Stories, was a WHSmith Fresh Talent pick, with TV rights sold to a major Hollywood studio.

The latest book in the series, Changeling, went straight to number one on the audiobook charts upon release. He lives in Newcastle.

Steph Broadribb

Steph Broadribb is an alumni of the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at City University in London, and she trained as a bounty-hunter in California, which inspired her bestselling Lori Anderson series, nominated for a clutch of international awards.

Lee Child called Deep Dirty Truth, ‘My kind of book’. She also writes under the name of Stephanie Marland, and lives in Buckinghamshire.

Sarah Stovell

Sarah Stovell is a Northumberland-based crime writer, whose critically acclaimed debut thriller Exquisite was called ‘the book of the summer’ by the Sunday Times, and one of the Telegraph  Books of the Year.

She teaches creative writing at Lincoln University. Her latest thriller, The Home, is set in the Lake District.

Will Carver

Will Carver is the international bestselling author of the January David series. He spent his early years in Germany, but returned to the UK at age eleven, when his sporting career took off.

His latest thriller, the unspeakably original Good Samaritans was book of the year in Guardian, Telegraph and Daily Express, and hit number one on the ebook charts.

William Ryan

William Ryan is the author of five novels, including the Captain Korolev series set in 1930s Moscow. They have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Irish Fiction Award, the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year and the Crime Writer Association’s Steel, Historical and New Blood Daggers.

His latest novel, A House of Ghosts, set in 1917, has been described as ‘an atmospheric, hugely entertaining mystery that offers all the pleasures of a classic ghost story – with an appealing dash of romance’.

S.J.I. Holliday

S.J.I. (Susi) Holliday is a pharmaceutical statistician by day and a crime and horror fan by night. She is the bestselling author of the creepy and claustrophobic Banktoun trilogy and the serial killer thriller The Deaths of December.

Her chilling gothic ghost story cum psychological thriller The Lingering was a number-one bestseller in ebook, and critically acclaimed in the UK press. She lives in London.

Lesley Thomson

Lesley divides her time between Winchcombe in Gloucestershire and Sussex, with her partner and her dog. Her first novel, A Kind of Vanishing, won the People’s Book Prize in 2010. Her second novel, The Detective’s Daughter, was a #1 bestseller and the series has sold over 750,000 copies.

Thorne Moore

Thorne Moore was born in Luton but has lived in West Wales for the past 35 years, running a restaurant, teaching genealogy, taking a law degree and making hand-crafted miniature furniture.

She writes domestic noir, historical and contemporary, set in rural north Pembrokeshire or a fictional version of Luton.

Derek Farrell

Derek is the author of ‘Death of a Diva’ ‘Death of a Nobody,’ ‘Death of a Devil’ and ‘Death of an Angel.’

The books have been described as “Like M.C. Beaton on MDMA,” and – by no less an expert than Eric Idle – as “Quite Fun.”

Christoffer Petersen

Christoffer Petersen writes crime books and thrillers set in Greenland. His main protagonists include retired Greenlandic Police Constable David Maratse, Commissioner Petra Piitalaat Jensen, and the first female sledge patroller Fenna Brongaard.

Chris spent 7 years in Greenland, including a year teaching at Greenland’s Police Academy. Chris lives in Denmark.

A.A. Dhand

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 and darkness of the city have inspired his Harry Virdee novels.

Marnie Riches

Marnie Riches grew up on a rough estate in north Manchester. Exchanging the spires of nearby Strangeways prison for those of Cambridge University, she gained a Masters in German & Dutch. She has been a punk, a trainee rock star, a pretend artist and professional fundraiser. When she’s not writing, Marnie likes to spin, run, refurbish old houses and drink gin.

Her best-selling, award-winning George McKenzie crime thrillers were inspired by her time spent in The Netherlands. Best-selling and critically acclaimed, Born Bad is the first book in her new series about Manchester’s gangland. The Cover-Up – the second instalment – was published in 2018.

Nigel Bird

Nigel Bird’s Southsiders series was originally published by Blasted Heath and his critically acclaimed noir tales In Loco Parentis and Smoke were recently reissued by All Due Respect.

His next novel, Let It Snow, will be released by Down and Out books later this year. He lives in Dunbar with his wife and three children.  

Óskar Gudmundsson

Óskar Gudmundsson’s debut novel HILMA was chosen as the best criminal novel published 2015 and received the Icelandic crime fiction award Blóðdropann (The Blood Drop). HILMA was Iceland´s contribution to the Glass Key, the Nordic Crime Fiction Award in 2017.

Óskar´s second book, Blóðengill (Blood Angel) was published by Bjartur in May 2018 and went straight onto the best-seller list. His third novel Boðorðin (The Commandments) will be published in November 2019. The Icelandic production company Sagafilm has secured the rights to adapt the award-winning novel Hilma for television.

Robert Parker

Robert Parker is a married father of three, from a village near Manchester, UK. The author of the Ben Bracken thrillers ‘A Wanted Man’ and ‘Morte Point’, and the post-Brexit country-noir ‘Crook’s Hollow’, he enjoys a rural life on an old pig farm (now minus pigs), writing horrible things between school runs.

Helen Fitzgerald

Helen Fitzgerald is the bestselling author of ten adult and YA thrillers, including The Cry, which was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and now a major BBC1 drama.

Helen worked as a criminal justice social worker for over fifteen years, which partly inspired her darkly comedic thriller Worst Case Scenario. She grew up in Australia and now lives in Glasgow.

Danielle Ramsay

Danielle Ramsay is the author of the DI Brady series and The Last Cut; described by Martina Cole as: “A really cracking good read!”

Shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger in 2009 and 2010 and a Read Regional Author in 2011. Danielle is the patron of the domestic violence charity SomeOne Cares.

Oscar de Muriel

Oscar de Muriel was born in Mexico City. He is a chemical engineer, violinist, translator and author of the Frey & McGray series, which has been translated into five languages. He currently divides his time between Mexico and the north of England.

Quentin Bates

Quentin Bates escaped 1970s English suburbia as a teenager with a gap year in Iceland that turned into a gap decade. He came late to fiction with a series of novels set in present-day Iceland, plus translations of many more, and splits his time between England and Iceland

Margaret Kirk

Margaret Kirk writes ‘Highland Noir’ Scottish crime fiction, set in and around her home town of Inverness. Her debut novel, Shadow Man, won the Good Housekeeping First Novel Competition in 2016. Described as ‘a harrowing and horrific game of consequences’ by Val McDermid, it was published in 2017 by Orion. Book 2 in the DI Lukas Mahler series, What Lies Buried, will appear in June 2019.

Simone Buchholz

Simone Buchholz is one of Germany’s bestselling crime writers, and the recipient of the highest award for crime fiction. Her Chastity Riley series has won critical acclaim internationally, and Simone was guest of honour at the London Book Fair earlier this year, where she was hailed as one of the ‘freshest and most exciting names in German literature’. Beton Rouge was published in February. She lives in Hanover.

GB Williams

GB Williams specialises in complex, fast-paced crime novels, such as the Locked Triology. GB was shortlisted for the 2014 CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition with the story Last Shakes, now available in Last Cut Casebook. As well as crime, she also writes steampunk and horror.

Jónína Leósdóttir

Jónína was born in Reykjavik. She studied Modern Languages and Latin at college, attended Essex University and later graduated from The University of Iceland with a BA in English and Literature.

She has written seventeen books in different genres – one of those is a memoir about her relationship with Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, former Prime Minister of Iceland. The couple fell in love in 1985 and Jóhanna became the world’s first openly queer leader in 2009.

Jónína Leósdóttir has been awarded for her work – both for poetry, short-stories and her books for young adults. She “turned to crime” in 2016, publishing the first book in her Edda crime-series, that now counts four novels. The most recent one was published in Iceland in February this year.

Jónína was instrumental in establishing The Icelandic Women’s Literary Prize in 2007 and is now an honorary member of the association that awards the prize.

Paul Heatley

Paul Heatley is the author of The Motel Whore & Other Stories, Fatboy, the Eye For An Eye series, Guns, Drugs, And Dogs, Guillotine, and the forthcoming Bad Bastards, as well as over fifty short stories published online and in print. He lives on the Northumberland coast.

Sólveig Pálsdóttir

Sólveig Pálsdóttir’s books are praised for their narrative, attention to detail and sympathetic characters as well as thrilling storylines. Sólveig’s books form a stand-alone series with each book being independent but with the same main characters.

In January 2019 she was awarded the title of Artist-in-Residence in her hometown of Seltjarnarnes, Iceland.

Phil Rowlands

Phil’s first novel Siena was published in August 2017. Pili Pala, his four part drama series for S4C, will broadcast this year, and Echoes, a Wales/Canada, First Nation, trilingual feature goes into production in late 2019.

Member of the CWA, Crime Cymru, Crime Writers of Canada and Society of Authors

Antti Tuomainen

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 writer in Europe’ in their review of Palm Beach Finland.

Thomas Enger

Thomas Enger is a former journalist, and author of the Henning Juul series, which has been published in 28 countries and sold millions of copies.

His YA novel, Killer Instinct, upon which Inborn, his latest thriller to be published in English is based, won Norway’s most prestigious award. Enger also composes music, and he lives in Oslo.

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Alex Khan

Alex Khan has spent his life dreaming of writing and starring in Bollywood movies while travelling the world visiting some of the most glamorous and exciting locations.

Moonlighting as a crime writer he finally got the courage to pen the novel he wanted to write all his life-Bollywood Wives. Taking you into the glamorous sexy thrilling environment of the world’s biggest movie stars and the secrets they hide. Alex also writes gritty modern crime under the name Alex Caan.

Howard Linskey

Howard Linskey is the author of five novels published by No Exit Press, including the David Blake crime series, The Drop, The Damage and The Dead.

Harry Potter producer, David Barron optioned a TV adaptation of The Drop, which was voted one of the Top Five Thrillers of the Year by The Times. The Damage was voted one of The Times’ Top Summer Reads.

He is also the author of two books set during WW2. Hunting the Hangman is a historical thriller about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during WW2. His new novel Ungentlemanly Warfare features SOE agents Harry Walsh and Emma Stirling, as well as American OSS agent Sam Cooper.

Howard is also the author of four books published by Penguin; including No Name Lane, Behind Dead Eyes, The Search and The Chosen Ones in a crime series set in the north east of England, featuring DS Ian Bradshaw, with investigative journalists Tom Carney and Helen Norton.

Originally from Ferryhill in County Durham, he now lives in Hertfordshire with his wife Alison and daughter Erin.

Judith O'Reilly

Judith O’Reilly is a former journalist with the Sunday Times and a former political producer with Newsnight and Channel 4 News.

Killing State is her debut thriller. She also wrote Wife in the North (a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a top three Sunday Times Bestseller) and A Year of Doing Good.

Caroline England

Caroline England is a former divorce lawyer. In addition to her short story collection, Watching Horsepats Feed the Roses, Caroline has had short fiction and poems published in a variety of literary publications and anthologies.

Her debut novel, Beneath the Skin, was published by Avon HarperCollins in October 2017. My Husband’s Lies, followed in May 2018 and became a kindle top ten bestseller.

Her new novel, Betray Her, will be published by Piatkus of Little, Brown Group, in March 2019.

Luke McCallin

Luke McCallin’s experiences working for the UN inspired a historical mystery series with an unlikely protagonist—Gregor Reinhardt, a German intelligence officer and former Berlin detective—confronted with murder and mayhem in Sarajevo during WWII, in occupied Berlin, and now in the trenches at the end of WWI.

Craig Robertson

Craig Robertson is the author of eight novels, mainly set on the mean streets of contemporary Glasgow and featuring DI Rachel Narey and journalist Tony Winter.

He has been shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize and the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger, twice longlisted for the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year, and is an international bestseller.

Richard Rippon

Richard Rippon has been writing since 2007, when his short story, “Full Tilt”, was long-listed for a Criminal Shorts award.

In 2009, he won a New Writing North Award for his first novel, ‘The Kebab King’. Since then he’s had a number of short stories published in newspapers, magazines and articles.

In 2012, he was commissioned to write a short story (“The Other One”), which appears in the Platform anthology.

‘Lord Of The Dead’ was published in November 2017 by Obliterati Press. Richard is currently working on the sequel.

He lives on the North East coast with his wife and two children, and works as a social media manager in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Eileen Wharton

Eileen Wharton is currently employed by MI5 but was wigmaker to Donald Trump and Megan Fox’s stunt double. She also tells lies for a living. She writes children’s books, women’s fiction, humour and crime. She’s trying to figure out how to combine them all. She hasn’t been arrested today … yet.

Anamaria Ionescu

Anamaria Ionescu was born in Bucharest where she’s lived ever since. She is a journalist and a writer and has been working for the Romanian Broadcasting Company for 20 years.

She had her literary debut in 2008 in the literary section of a national publication with a short story called Travelling Family. Her first book was published in 2009 The Obscure Room, a volume of short stories.

In 2014 she published the first novel of her Sergiu Manta mystery and thriller series, Code Name: Arkon. The series keeps track of an IT specialist, who’s also a biker and a rocker, whose destiny pushes him into being an assassin.

In 2016 Zodiac came out, the second novel of the Sergiu Manta series. Later this year the third Sergiu Manta novel, The Law of the Tallion, will be published.

Michael J. Malone

One of the most popular exponents of Tartan Noir, Michael J. Malone is a prize-winning poet and author of a number of award-winning, number-one bestselling thrillers, including A Suitable Lie.

His latest psychological thriller, After He Died, explores grief and poverty in Glasgow, in a stunning, page-turning read. He lives in Ayr.

Fiona Veitch Smith

Fiona Veitch Smith is the author of the flapulous Poppy Denby Investigates series, murder mysteries set in the 1920s. Book 1, The Jazz Files, was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger in 2016. Book 4, The Cairo Brief, is currently on the People’s Book Award short list.

Fiona also writes for children and is working on a graphic novel about the father of computers, Charles Babbage. In addition, she is writing book 5 in the Poppy series and is in discussions with a publisher about a new series with a brand new protagonist, also set in the 1920s.

Originally from Northumberland, she spent her teen and young adult years in South Africa where she worked as a journalist. She now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Danny Marshall

Danny lives in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, where he’s influenced by the steep wooded valleys and vast bleak moors. Published in the 2016 anthology Northern Crime One, in 2016 he pitched at Bloody Scotland, and last year won a Northern Writers’ Award for his thriller Anthrax Island

Sheila Quigley

Sheila Quigley is the bestselling author of eleven novels, eight in the Seahills estate, murder mysteries set in the Northeast, featuring Lorraine Hunt and Luke Daniels. Run For Home and Bad Moon Rising have both been made into successful stage plays.

The Holy Island trilogy set on the wonderful Lindisfarne, murder and conspiracy featuring Mike Yorke, Aunt May and street kid Smiler.

Sheila was voted no 7 in WH Smiths poll of the 20 best crime writers of all time.

Teodora Matei

Romanian author Teodora Matei is the deputy in-chief editor of Gazeta SF (online magazine). Her debut novel in print was The Butterfly Man (cyberpunk-crime, 2015), the first volume of the trilogy with the same name, written together with Lucian-Dragoș Bogdan, a Romanian SF/romance/thriller author. Her crime novels In the Commissioner’s Mind & Living Candles are pubished by Tritonic.

She has also contributed to the crime fiction collective volumes Bucharest Noir and Gastro Noir, coordinated by Bogdan Hrib.

Tony Hutchinson

A former Detective Superintendent who brought over 50 killers to justice and faced the world’s media when he led the hunt for fake-death canoe man John Darwin, Tony brings an expert procedural eye to his Dark Tides thriller series. His novels are 100% authentic. Seaton St George is a fictitious town with malice.

Ashley Erwin

Matt Johnson

Creative writing therapy for PTSD resulted in ex-cop Matt Johnson’s debut novel Wicked Game being published by Orenda.

Dagger long-listed by the CWA, #22 in the WHSmith 2018 list of best-ever crime writers and with two sequel novels published, Matt is a member of Wales Crime writers group, Crime Cymru.

A.M. Peacock

A.M. Peacock is the author of the new DCI Jack Lambert series, which is set in the North East of England. Having previously had a number of short stories and articles published, his debut novel, Open Grave, was released in September 2018 by Bloodhound Books. 

 Book two is imminent…

Alexandra Sokoloff

Alexandra Sokoloff is the Thriller Award-winning author/screenwriter of thirteen novels and the Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workbooks. Her Huntress Moonseries follows a female serial killer, smashing genre clichés and turning the tables on predators.

“Some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre.”- The New York Times 

http://AlexandraSokoloff.com

Bogdan Hrib

After graduating civil engineering in Bucharest, Bogdan Hrib embarked on a varied career encompassing the professions of photographer, journalist and book publisher at Tritonic (from 1993). He is lecturer at National University of Political Studies and Public Administration.

Bogdan Hrib’s debut as a Crime fiction writer came in 2007 with Filiera greceasca (The Greek Connection, in English,  by Mozaic Press, Canada, 2015), the first book in the Stelian Munteanu series. It was followed by The Curse of the Manuscript (2008), Somalia, Mon Amour (2009), Kill the general (Profusion, UK, 2011) and The passion of Mrs. Minister (2016).

The Last Photography, 2012 – is his first stand alone social novel. He published short stories and he edited several Crime fiction collective books: Noir de Bucuresti (2017), GastroNOIR (2018), Noir de Timisoara (2019) etc.

Bogdan Hrib lives in Bucharest.

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Yrsa is an award-winning, No. 1 best-selling Icelandic crime fiction author. She made her crime fiction debut in 2005 with Last Rituals, the first installment in the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series.

She has since gone on to write a number of acclaimed stand-alone thriller novels including Why Did You Lie, and is to date translated into more than 30 languages.

With The Legacy, the first novel in the award-winning series about child psychologist Freyja and police detective Huldar, Yrsa has consolidated her position as one of the finest crime writers of our time, and a master storyteller.

The latest novel in this series The Absolution will be released this month, just in time for NN2019!

Gunnar Staalesen

Gunnar Staalesen is one of the godfathers of the Nordic Noir genre, and his Varg Veum series has been published in 26 countries and has sold over five million copies, with 12 film adaptations.

Staalesen has won three Golden Pistols and the Petrona Award, and been shortlisted for the CWA Dagger and the Glass Key. Wolves at the Door is published in June. He lives in Bergen.

John Harvey

John Harvey was born in London, where he now lives, while considering Nottingham his spiritual home. The first of his 12 volume Charlie Resnick series, Lonely Hearts was selected by The Times as one of the ‘100 Best Crime Novels of the Century’ and the first Frank Elder novel, Flesh & Blood, won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2004.

He was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in the crime genre in 2007, and his story, ‘Fedora’ won the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2014. Body & Soul (Frank Elder’s last case) was published in January this year.

Mari Hannah

Mari Hannah is the author of the Kate Daniels series of police procedurals, the Ryan and O’Neil crime series and the Stone and Oliver series.

In 2010, she won the Northern Writers’ Award for Settled Blood. Three years later, she won the Polari First Book Prize for her debut, The Murder Wall. In 2017, her body of work won her the CWA Dagger in the Library.

Mari is currently Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

Elly Griffiths

Elly Griffiths 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 won the 2016 CWA Dagger in the Library, and has been shortlisted three times for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.

Elly’s The Brighton Mysteries series is set in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2017 Elly was Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.

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Nathan Blackwell

Nathan Blackwell lives in Auckland, New Zealand. His debut The Sound of Her Voice was described as “harrowing, compelling, and quite brilliant” (NZ Herald), was a double finalist in the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Awards, and is being published in the UK and beyond in 2019.

Before turning to fictional crime, Nathan spent several years working undercover and investigating the most serious crimes as a detective in the New Zealand Police.