Description
Whether it’s gritty city centre streets or wild and windswept moors, landscapes have had a huge impact on crime writing. Our panel will discuss how landscape can add atmosphere to the narrative, what makes certain locations so important to a story and why they chose particular settings for their own books.
Crime fiction offers the perfect blend of people and place where the location becomes as indispensable as the characters themselves, with fans often flocking in their droves to see the settings of their favourite books for themselves.
Our panel of leading crime authors, Vaseem Khan, Denise Mina, S.J Parris and Martin Griffin will explore what it means to set the crime scene.
About the Chair
Vaseem Khan
Vaseem Khan, author of acclaimed crime series set in India, balances modern Mumbai with 1950s Bombay in his Baby Ganesh Agency and Malabar House novels, respectively. His debut, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, garnered praise, earning translation into 17 languages and recognition by the Sunday Times. Midnight at Malabar House clinched the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger in 2021. Born in England and having worked a decade in India, Khan broke barriers as the first non-white Chair of the UK Crime Writers Association in 2023.
About the Authors
S.J. Parris
No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author S.J. Parris is the pseudonym for author and journalist Stephanie Merritt, who has worked as a critic and feature writer for a variety of newspapers and magazines, as well as radio and television.
Writing as S. J. Parris, she is the fastest growing historical crime writer in the UK, with her series of thrillers set in Tudor England selling over a million copies. The series, starring 16th century spy Giordano Bruno, has been optioned for TV by Urban Myth Films.
She currently writes for the Observer and the Guardian, reviews for BBC Radio 4, and lives in Surrey.
Denise Mina
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 Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year and the Gordon Burn Prize. Denise has also written plays and graphic novels, and presented television and radio programmes. She lives and works in Glasgow.
Martin Griffin
Martin Griffin is an exciting new voice in the crime genre. Before turning his hand to writing, he was a deputy headteacher and a doomed singer who was once asked to support The Fall on tour, a gig he had to decline having only composed two good songs. Martin lives in Manchester with his wife and daughter. The Second Stranger was published by Sphere in January.
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