Richard Reynolds (Non-Voting Chair)

Richard Reynolds retired as the crime fiction specialist at Heffers, Cambridge, after nearly forty-one years in September 2022. He remains involved, supporting publishers, crime writers and their work. In July 2024, he missed bookselling and launched Cambridge-based Bodies in the Bookshop: Specialists in Murder becoming co-owner with Jon Gifford of The Oleander Press. He is Series Consultant for Galileo Publishers Golden Age novels and editor of the Oreon GA Detection list (info@bodiesinthebookshop.co.uk).

Baroness Brown of Silvertown
Baroness Brown of Silvertown has been the MP for West Ham since 2005, growing up in the area she now represents. A previous Gold Dagger judge, she remains an avid reader and co-ordinates a book club for Labour Women MPs. Lyn now holds a Shadow Ministerial post in Labour’s Shadow Treasury Team.

Paul Burke

Paul writes the ‘The Verdict’ column for NB Magazine, interviews, articles and features for Crime Fiction Lover, Crime Time and the European Literature Network. He also edits and presents the Crime Time FM podcast and is a book collector and lover of crime fiction.

Dan Coxon

Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer. He has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards and the British Fantasy Awards (six times), with Writing the Uncanny (co-edited with Richard V. Hirst) winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction 2022. The second book in the Writing series, Writing the Future, was published in September 2023, and the third, Writing the Mystery, is forthcoming in 2024.

 Raymond Dickey

A recently retired chemical engineer whose hobbies include martial arts, playing and listening to live music, walking, trying to learn languages, and, of course, reading.  Originally from the USA he has resided in the UK for the past 20 years. His wife, Kathy, writes mostly urban fantasy novels.

Louise Fairbairn
Louise Fairbairn is a freelance production journalist and proofreader, and was the crime fiction reviewer for The Scotsman newspaper for several years. Louise has been part of the Theakstons Prize academy for several years, was a judge for the Ngaio Awards debut for three years and was part of the McIlvanney Prize academy in 2024. She blogs about crime fiction as The Girl With All The Crime Books (www.crimebookgirl.com / @crimebookgrrl)

Pippa Macallister
Pippa was introduced to crime fiction by a Francis Durbridge-loving grandmother and a Christie-loving primary schoolteacher. Pippa has looked after the admin for a crime fiction book group for the last 20 years or so and is the author of Cambridge – Myriads of Misdeeds.