"Sister Sleuths" with Alice Castle, Anne Coates and Julie Anderson
Come along to this online talk in which three authors discuss personal, political and psychological themes in their books.
"Sister Sleuths" with Alice Castle, Anne Coates and Julie Anderson
This is an online event (Zoom webinar). A link will be sent out on the day of event.
Free
Is 2023 the year of the female detective?
How do you solve a murder while organizing childcare?
Why do women write crime fiction?
What won't readers believe?
About the speakers
Before turning to crime, Alice Castle worked as a newspaper journalist for The Daily Express, The Times and The Daily Telegraph. Her first book, Hot Chocolate, set in Brussels and London, was a European hit and sold out in two weeks. All of her Beth Haldane murder mystery series are now published by Bookouture.
Anne Coates: Telling stories is Anne’s first love and for most of her working life in publishing, she has had a foot in both camps as a writer and an editor, moving from book publishing to magazines and then freelancing in both. Having edited both fiction and narrative non-fiction, she has also had short stories published in a variety of magazines including Bella and Candis and is the author of seven non-fiction books. Her Hannah Weybridge series comprises: Dancers in the Wind; Death's Silent Judgement; Songs of Innocents, Perdition's Child, Stage Call.
Julie Anderson is a writer and author who had a long career as a senior Whitehall civil servant, working for a variety of government departments and agencies, including the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Her novel, Plague, is the first in a thriller series featuring Cassandra Fortune. The second, Oracle, was published in March 2021 and the third, Opera, in 2022. Julie is Chair of Trustees of Clapham Writers the charitable organisation responsible for the annual Clapham Book Festival. She lives in London.