Gytha Lodge (Chair)

Gytha Lodge is the Sunday Times bestselling and Richard and Judy selected author of the Jonah Sheens series. A former playwright and content marketing manager, she’s now pretty happy with a situation where she mostly gets to read, write, listen in on people’s conversations in coffee shops, and mess around on her own social media. 

Steph Broadribb

Steph Broadribb is the author of the bestselling Retired Detectives Club series including Death in the Sunshine and the most recent book in the series Death on the Beach. She has also written the Lori Anderson bounty hunter series and the Starke/Bell police procedural novels (as Stephanie Marland). She has an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) and trained as a bounty hunter in California. Her books have been shortlisted for the eDunnit eBook of the year award, the ITW Best First Novel award, and the Dead Good Reader Awards.

Derek Farrell

is the author of five Danny Bird mystery novels as well as a novella and numerous short stories. He grew up in Dublin and now lives in West Sussex with what some people call “Way too many books.”

Tanya Kosinski

Raised on a diet of Secret Seven and Nancy Drew, Tanya developed her passion for crime fiction from an early age. You can only imagine the monumental impact being introduced to the works of Agatha Christie had on her. Tanya is based in the New Forest and is a bookseller for Waterstones. She gets a ridiculous amount of enjoyment when recommending murder mysteries to her customers. when she can bring herself out of reading Tanya needs to be reminded that she has a husband and two nearly adult children.