Corinne Turner (Chair)

Corinne has managed and helped develop authors’ literary estates for around 30 years. She is the former Managing Director of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd and also owns and manages the literary estate of children’s author, Willard Price.

Helena Baser

Helena Baser has worked in publishing for almost two decades. She has a longstanding love of crime fiction that began when she was a teenager reading her parents’ collection of Golden Age detective novels.

Lisa Moylett

Lisa Moylett has worked in publishing for almost 30 years and founded Coombs Moylett Maclean Literary Agency in 1997. She represents an eclectic list of authors and writers Her client list includes: continuation 007 Bond author John Gardner, creator of Lovejoy; Jonathan Gash, and best-selling crime writers Lisa Hall, Simon Brett, and Catriona McPherson. On the non-fiction front she represents lexicographer and foremost authority on Anglophone slang, Jonathon Green; Journalist, author and broadcaster Malachi O’Doherty, and political pundit Ian Dunt.

Dierdre O’Brien

Deirdre O’Brien has worked as a journalist for twenty five years, specialising in features and with a particular interest in books. Currently the Entertainment Editor of Best Magazine, she has a monthly book review column, and has previously been the book  reviewer for the Sunday Mirror and the fiction previewer for The Bookseller magazine. She has a particular enthusiasm for crime fiction, which is a life long passion. Born and raised in King’s Lynn, she now lives in London. 

Craig Sisterson 

Craig Sisterson is the author of the non-fiction crime book, Southern Cross Crime. Craig is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he’s interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He’s been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir.

David Wilkerson

David was a Commercial Manager at the British Library in London; specialising in Publishing and Retail. Until he retired, he worked for over thirty-five years in the book industry, primarily as a bookseller, and has spent almost a lifetime reading crime novels.