Criminal Minds

An evening with three local crime writers

JANE BETTANY
Jane Bettany is the author of the DI Isabel Blood crime novels, set in the fictional Derbyshire town of Bainbridge, and a cosy crime series featuring amateur sleuth Violet Brewster, which is also set in Derbyshire.
Jane's debut novel In Cold Blood (the first in the DI Isabel Blood series) won the 2019 Gransnet and HQ writing competition, for women writers over the age of 40 who had written a novel with a protagonist in the same age range.
Before turning to novel writing, Jane had been writing short stories and non-fiction articles for over twenty years, many of which have appeared in women’s magazines, literary magazines, newspapers and online.

TOM MEAD
Tom Mead is a Derbyshire mystery writer and aficionado of Golden Age Crime Fiction. His debut novel, Death and the Conjurer, was an international bestseller. Its sequel, The Murder Wheel, and his third Joseph Spector mystery, Cabaret Macabre, were also highly praised. The fourth book in the series, The House at Devil’s Neck, will be released in August.

MARK EKLID
Mark Eklid was an award-winning regional newspaper sports journalist before switching from cricket to crime thrillers.
The 23-Day Girlfriend, self-published in June 2024, is his sixth novel. His first was Sunbeam in 2019, followed by Family Business and Catalyst. The Murder of Miss Perfect and Blood on Shakespeare’s Typewriter were published through SpellBound Books. All six are fast-moving, plot-twisting crime thrillers set in the city of his birth, Sheffield.