Edwin Buckhalter (Chair)
Edwin Buckhalter is the son of a London bookseller, growing up in the book trade, and founding Severn House Publishers in 1974. Having sold the company in 2017 and ostensibly retired, he still reads widely and avidly, especially his first love of crime fiction, whilst devoting much time as a Trustee of an orchestra and not enough time to watching cricket.

Teddy Hayes
Teddy moved to London in 1996 from Ohio, and started writing a detective series of novels and producing his own plays as well as feature films. He started publishing his novels about a black CIA- hitman turned private detective in Harlem called Devil Barnett. The first novel, Blood Red Blues was published in 1997. In 2019 Teddy was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Equal Arts Foundation in the UK.

Susan Moody
Susan Moody was born and brought up in Oxford. Her first crime novel, Penny Black, was published in 1984. She has written a number of suspense thrillers. Susan spent two years as Creative Writing Tutor at Bedford Prison and is a former Chairman of the Crime Writer’s Association.

Karen Robinson
Karen Robinson is the Supplements Editor of the Sunday Times. She also writes, on property, education, books, travel and food.