Matt Hilton quit his career as a police officer with Cumbria Constabulary to pursue his love of writing tight, cinematic American-style thrillers. He is the author of 13 Joe Hunter thrillers, and 10 Tess Grey and Po Villere thrillers. He has a couple of standalone thrillers coming soon, the first of which is 'The Girl In the Smoke', to be published by Severn House in February 2024.

In addition Matt has published horror/suspense/action novels 'Darkest Hour', 'Dominion', 'Preternatural', 'The Shadows Call', 'Wildfire', 'The Girl on Shattered Rock' and 'Darke'.

Matt is a high ranking martial artist, and in his day fought in the fledgling MMA scene in the UK, and was Northern Ju-Jitsu Champion 2000. He has been a cop, a detective and a private security specialist, all of which lend an authenticity to the action scenes in his books.

He has been writing since he was a small child, and is also an avid reader of crime, horror and thriller books, all of which inspire his writing style. Although seen as crime thrillers, Matt's Joe Hunter series combine elements from all of those genres, so is slightly different in flavour than many others in the same category. He is a huge fan of the pulp masters, and hopes to emulate their fast pace and derring do. Matt is the first to say that his books will never win a literary prize, but they're not intended to: they're there for pure entertainment.

Saying that Matt's first novel, Dead Men's Dust, was shortlisted for Debut Thriller of the Year 2009 by the International Thriller Writers' Organisation (ITW) and was named as a Daily Telegraph Thriller of the Year 2009, and in 2013 was a Kindle UK top ten best seller.

His books have been translated into German, Italian, Romanian and Bulgarian, and are published throughout the UK (and territories) by Hodder and Stoughton, Canelo, Joffe Books and Severn House,, and in the USA (and territories) by William Morrow and Co, Canelo, Joffe Books and by Down and Out Books.

K. A. Laity is an award-winning author, scholar, filmmaker, critic, editor, and arcane artist. She has appeared on BBC radio and NPR talking about magic, witchcraft and surrealism. She has decades of experience reading tarot. Her creative workshops are offered through Visionary Fuel.

Dr Laity’s current research includes medieval Scots, crime fiction & films, medievalism and the writings of Leonora Carrington.

Her fiction includes Chastity Flame, The Mangrove Legacy, Lush Situation, Love is a Grift, Satan’s Sorority, How to Be Dull, White Rabbit, Dream Book, A Cut-Throat Business, Owl Stretching, and Pelzmantel. She has edited My Wandering Uterus, Respectable Horror, Weird Noir, Noir Carnival and Drag Noir, plus written many short stories, scholarly essays, songs, and plays. Her 2011-2 Fulbright Fellowship at the National University of Ireland, Galway, focused on Digital Humanities.

She writes crime as Graham Wynd and historical fiction as Kit Marlowe.

For her music & performance check out Higora, Aural Lint, Low Vibrational Frequency, and Victoria Squid.

“Eric Beetner spins a violent, terrific yarn that’s sure to appeal to hardboiled crime aficionados and action lovers alike.”

 Suspense Magazine

“Beetner’s searing novel bulldozes its way from one scene to another in the print equivalent of a blockbuster action film.”

Publisher’s Weekly

"The new maestro of Noir."

Ken Bruen, author of the Jack Taylor novels

Eric Beetner is the author more than thirty novels, including The Last Few Miles Of Road, Two In The Head, All The Way Down, Rumrunners, Leadfoot (Anthony Award nominee), The Devil Doesn't Want Me, When The Devil Comes To Call, The Devil At Your Door, Criminal Economics, Dig Two Graves, The Year I Died Seven Times.

He is an International Thriller Award nominee, a Shamus nominee and a three-time Anthony Award nominee including best paperback original and best anthology for Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns which he edited and created. His award-winning short fiction has appeared in more than three dozen anthologies.

Eric also hosted the podcast Writer Types and he hosts the popular Noir at the Bar reading series in Los Angeles for 12 years and counting.

When not writing he lives and works in Los Angeles where he is an 8 time Emmy nominated TV editor and producer, helping to be both a part of the solution and a part of the problem of people not reading as much as they used to.

Paul D. Brazill's books include Stray Bullets, Guns Of Brixton, Gumshoe Blues and Seatown Blues. He was born in England and lives in Poland. His writing has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Polish, German and Slovene. He has had writing published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Mammoth Books of Best British Crime.

Nick Quantrill was born and raised in Hull, an isolated industrial city in East Yorkshire.

His acclaimed Joe Geraghty crime novels, featuring a small time rugby league player turned Private Investigator, have mapped the city’s journey from being branded the worst of the UK’s Crap Towns through to being crowned 2017 UK City of Culture. “The Dead Can’t Talk” marks the start of an exciting new series and introduces readers to Anna Stone, a disillusioned police officer, and Luke Carver, a drifter freshly released from prison. Still exploring a rapidly changing Hull, the settings may be local, but the ideas and issues resonate on a much wider basis.

Also a prolific short story writer, his work has appeared in various volumes of “The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime”. In 2011, he became the first person to hold the role of ‘Writer in Residence’ at Hull Kingston Rovers, contributing exclusive fiction to the matchday programme and assisting with the club’s literacy programme.

A regular fixture on the events circuit, he’s taken to the stage at Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Crimefest and Iceland Noir, as well as numerous libraries and bookshops around the north of England.

When not writing fiction, he contributes reviews and essays to a variety of football and music websites. He lives in Hull with his wife, cat and the constant fear Hull City AFC will let him down.

For more information, please see www.nickquantrill.co.uk.

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Steve Weddle is the author of The County Line, an Amazon First Reads selection. His previous book, Country Hardball, which The New York Times called “downright dazzling,” is a collection of connected short stories. A former newspaper editor, he is the cofounder of the crime fiction collective Do Some Damage, the cocreator of the noir magazine Needle, and has taught short story writing at LitReactor.

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Richard Godwin is the critically acclaimed author of novels Apostle Rising, Mr.Glamour, One Lost Summer, Noir City, Meaningful Conversations and Confessions Of A Hit Man. He is a crime and horror writer as well as a produced playwright. He was born in London and obtained a BA and MA in English and American Literature from King's College London. His stories have been published in many magazines and anthologies. He has 29 distinct works in print.

Apostle Rising, published in 2011, met with excellent reviews worldwide and sold foreign rights throughout Europe. In it Detective Castle is faced with a copycat killer with detailed inside knowledge of a case he failed to solve. The killer is crucifying politicians. Castle enters a deadly labyrinth, and at its centre is the man he believes was responsible for the first killings. He's running a sinister cult and playing dark mind games with the police.

His second novel Mr. Glamour was published in 2012. It is a story about beautiful people in a designer world living on a precipice with a predator in their midst. One bestselling author has already said he hopes you do not recognise yourself in its pages.

It is truly a page turner.

It will keep you guessing until the end.

His Chin Wags At The Slaughterhouse are highly popular and unusual interviews he conducts with other authors and may be found at his blog http://www.richardgodwin.net/blog

You can find out more about him at his website http://www.richardgodwin.net/.

Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 150 short stories that have appeared in print and online publications. She won the Derringer Award in 2008 for her story "My Hero." She is the co-editor of the e-anthology DISCOUNT NOIR. Collections of her stories MONKEY JUSTICE AND OTHER STORIES and HOME INVASION were published by Snubnose Press.

In 2015, Polis Books published the novel, CONCRETE ANGEL and in 2016, SHOT IN DETROIT.

You can find her blog at http://pattinase.blogspot.com

Vincent Holland-Keen writes novels and dabbles in art, design and filmmaking, while working for a major metropolitan university doing inexplicable things in the strange and fantastical realm of corporate IT.

Luca Veste is a writer of Italian and Liverpudlian heritage, married with two young daughters, and one of nine children. He studied psychology and criminology at university in Liverpool. He is the author of the Murphy and Rossi series, which includes DEAD GONE, THE DYING PLACE, BLOODSTREAM, and THEN SHE WAS GONE.

Part psychological thriller, part police procedural, his books follow the detective pairing of DI David Murphy and DS Laura Rossi. The novels are set in Liverpool, bringing the city to life in a dark and terrifying manner...with just a splash of Scouse humour.

"Astringent and artfully constructed." The Financial Times

"A darkly impressive novel... disturbing and intelligent." The Times

"Page-turner." Sunday Times

"A chilling début from a writer to watch..." Mark Billingham

"Gripping, unpredictable, genuinely shocking and impossible to put down, Dead Gone is a remarkable début." Steve Mosby

"A twisty, psychological crime debut in a gritty setting: a new favourite for police procedural lovers" Clare Mackintosh

"Tense and darkly playful." Chris Ewan

"A major new talent on the crime scene." Eva Dolan

"Fresh...original." Mel Sherratt

"Original and terrifying." Stav Sherez

He is also the editor of the Spinetingler Award nominated charity anthology 'Off The Record', and co-editor of 'True Brit Grit', also an anthology of short stories for charity.

He is a former civil servant, actor, singer and guitarist (although he still picks it up now and again), and now a full-time writer.

He can be found at www.lucaveste.com and on twitter @LucaVeste

R Thomas Brown has been a story teller as long as he can remember. Many of those were devised to escape punishment of one form or another. He has over time turned his creative energies toward crafting stories he hopes will both entertain and provoke thought.

You can follow him at www.rthomasbrown.com

I sincerely hope you enjoy 'The Manchester Series'. It's not for the faint of heart. I promise twists and dark wit of the true 'Brit Grit' variety, plus characters to remember. After eBooks of gritty, short crime stories and flash fiction, the plan is to culminate via a crescendo of novels on shelves, featuring my unusual cop, Jack Striker.

Update: the plan is coming to fruition - my debut crime novel, MY KIND OF JUSTICE will be published by Caffeine Nights in 2015.

Thanks for reading.

Regards,

Col

Blog: http://colburysnewcrimefiction.blogspot.com/

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Victoria Watson was awarded 'Young Reviewer of the Year' in 2009 and completed a Masters degree in Creative Writing in 2010.

Her short story 'The Piano' won 1st prize in the Story Tyne competition in 2012. Victoria had a story published in the 'Home Tomorrow' anthology published by 6th Edition Publishing in 2011. Her work is also featured in both 'Off the Record' charity anthologies.

Victoria has contributed to publications including 'True Faith' (Newcastle United fanzine), NCJ Media's north-east titles The Journal, Evening Chronicle and Sunday Sun. She has also reviewed for Amazon, Waterstones and Closer Magazine. She has also contributed to The Northern Line blog and is the official blogger for Whitley Bay Film Festival.

Victoria runs Elementary V Watson Proofreading and Copywriting Services. She also runs Creative Writing classes. For more information, visit her website elementaryvwatson.com

Graham Smith is a time served joiner who has built bridges, houses, dug drains and slated roofs to make ends meet. Since Christmas 2000, he has been manager of a busy hotel and wedding venue near Gretna Green, Scotland.

He is an internationally best-selling Kindle author and has six books featuring DI Harry Evans and the Cumbrian Major Crimes Team, and four novels, featuring Utah doorman, Jake Boulder. His ‘Lakes’ series which has three novels featuring DC Beth Young has received much critical acclaim.

An avid fan of crime fiction since being given one of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five books at the age of eight, he has also been a regular reviewer and interviewer for the well-respected website Crimesquad.com since 2009

Graham is the founder of Crime and Publishment, a weekend of crime-writing classes which includes the chance for attendees to pitch their novels to agents and publishers. Since the first weekend in 2013, sixteen attendees have gone on to sign publishing contracts.

Graham also writes as John Ryder and G.N. Smith

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Andrez Bergen is an expat Australian writer, journalist, DJ, photographer, artist, and ad hoc saké connoisseur who's been entrenched in Tokyo, Japan, for the past 15 years.

He published noir/sci-fi novel 'Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat' in 2011, surreal, Japanese culture-based fantasy 'One Hundred Years of Vicissitude' in 2012, comic book/noir/pulp homage 'Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?' in 2013, the coming-of-age noir/mystery 'Depth Charging Ice Planet Goth' (2014), and hardboiled/horror romp 'Small Change' in 2015.

In addition he has published two graphic novels -- 'Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat' (2014) and 'Bullet Gal' (2015), as writer/artist -- and three comic book series.

In 2013 Bergen also released 'The Condimental Op' (a collection of short stories, comics, and articles on music, movies and Japan), as well as co-editing 'The Tobacco-Stained Sky' anthology.

His next novel 'Black Sails, Disco Inferno' will be published in 2016.

Bergen has published short stories through Crime Factory, Shotgun Honey, Snubnose Press, All Due Respect, 8th Wonder Press, Big Pulp, Perfect Edge Books, IF? Commix, Under Belly Comics, Pulp Ink, Another Sky Press, Project-Nerd, Roundfire Fiction and Solarcide, and worked on translating and adapting the scripts for feature films by Mamoru Oshii, Kazuchika Kise and Naoyoshi Shiotani at Production I.G in Japan.

Susi (S.J.I.) Holliday is the bestselling Scottish author of 11 novels, a novella and many short stories. By day she works in pharmaceuticals. She lives in London (except when she's in Edinburgh) and she loves to travel the world.

BOOKS

The Party Season (Oct 2023)

The Street (June 2023)

The Hike (2022)

Substitute (2021)

The Last Resort (2020)

Mr Sandman (2020)

Violet (2019)

The Lingering (2018)

The Deaths of December (2017)

The Damselfly (2017)

Willow Walk (2016)

Black Wood (2015)

You can find links to her website, social media and newsletter here: www.linktr.ee/susiholliday

Susi (S.J.I.) Holliday is the bestselling Scottish author of 11 novels, a novella and many short stories. By day she works in pharmaceuticals. She lives in London (except when she's in Edinburgh) and she loves to travel the world.

BOOKS

The Party Season (Oct 2023)

The Street (June 2023)

The Hike (2022)

Substitute (2021)

The Last Resort (2020)

Mr Sandman (2020)

Violet (2019)

The Lingering (2018)

The Deaths of December (2017)

The Damselfly (2017)

Willow Walk (2016)

Black Wood (2015)

You can find links to her website, social media and newsletter here: www.linktr.ee/susiholliday

Erik Arneson is the author of HOW TO HOST A GAME NIGHT, 17 GAMES YOU CAN PLAY RIGHT NOW!, and the crime fiction short story collection THE THROES OF CRIME. A Derringer Award finalist for his short story "The Murder of Ernest Trapnell," Arneson's crime fiction has been published in Thuglit, Needle, Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, and many other outlets. He also plays board games. A lot of board games. He lives with his wife and editor, Elizabeth, in Pennsylvania. They are both part-owners of the greatest franchise in all of professional sports, the Green Bay Packers.