As well as the six special guest authors, Arne Dahl, Hakan Nesser, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Alex Gray, Denise Mina and Stuart MacBride, Shetland Noir will be welcoming authors from as far away as Los Angeles and Washington DC, as well as from the UK mainland and from Shetland.
Alexandra Sokoloff, lives in Los Angeles and in Scotland, with Tartan Noir author Craig Robertson. She is the bestselling, Thriller Award-winning and Bram Stoker and Anthony Award-nominated author of eleven supernatural, paranormal and crime thrillers. The New York Times has called her “a daughter of Mary Shelley” and her books “Some of the most original…
Like special guest author Alex Gray, Craig Robertson is heavily involved in Bloody Scotland, the annual Crime Fiction Festival run in Stirling. He is the author of Random, Snapshot, Cold Grave, Witness The Dead and the new novel The Last Refuge. His debut novel, Random, was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger and was…
Sarah Ward is an online crime fiction reviewer at Crimepieces. She is also a judge for the Petrona Award for translated Scandinavian crime fiction. Her debut novel, set in Derbyshire, In Bitter Chill will be published in July 2015 by Faber and Faber.
Pamela Palmer is the author of the medieval mystery, Threads of Treason, writing as Mary Bale, and as Pamela St Abbs she is the author of the Inspector Campbell Mysteries. Threads of Treason was picked up by Pen and Sword Books from the Internet and published under their Claymore Press imprint in 2013. Pamela lives, works…
SJI Holliday grew up in East Lothian. She is a life-long fan of crime and horror and her short stories have been published in various places. She was shortlisted for the inaugural CWA Margery Allingham competition. She is married and lives in London. Her first novel, Black Wood, is published by Black&White.
Mari Hannah was born in London and moved north as a child. Sponsored by the Home Office, she graduated from Teesside University before becoming a Probation Officer, a career cut short when she was injured while on duty. Thereafter, she spent several years working as a film/television scriptwriter. During that time she created and developed…
Louise Millar is the author of The Hidden Girl, Accidents Happen and The Playdate, psychological thrillers published by Pan Macmillan in the UK, and Emily Bestler Books/Atria in the USA. Before turning to fiction, she spent 20 years working in magazines and newspapers, starting as a freelance sub-editor on entertainment titles such as the NME,…
Melanie McGrath is the author of critically acclaimed, bestselling non-fiction (Silvertown and The Long Exile) and won the John Llewelyn-Rhys/Mail on Sunday award for Best New British and Commonwealth Writer under 35, for her first book Motel Nirvana. She writes for the national press and is a regular broadcaster on radio. Melanie lives and works…
Helen Giltrow was born and brought up in Cheltenham and read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford. She has worked extensively in publishing, including ten years as a commissioning editor for Oxford University Press. She went freelance as an editor in 2001 and has since worked on a range of fiction, non-fiction and education titles.…
Laura Wilson is the author of seventeen crime thrillers including The Empty Death, Hello Bunny Alice, Stratton’s War, and A Thousand Lies. She was brought up in London and has degrees in English literature from Somerville College, Oxford, and UCL, London. She lives in Islington, London, where she is currently working on her thirteenth novel.…
Marsali Taylor is the author of the Cassie Lynch series of crime thrillers set in Shetland, including The Trowie Mound Murders, Death in a Longship, and A Handful of Ash. She grew up near Edinburgh, and came to Shetland as a newly-qualified teacher. She is currently a part-time teacher on Shetland’s scenic west side, living…
Lilja Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic crime-writer and playwright, born in 1972. She is the author of the books Steps (Spor) published by Bjartur publishing in 2009 and Forgiveness (Fyrirgefning) published by Bjartur publishing in 2010. Her debut stage-play Big Babies (Stóru Börnin) was staged in the winter of 2013-2014, became critically acclaimed and won the…
Ragnar Jónasson is the Icelandic writer of the Northern Iceland Crime Series set around the northernmost town in Iceland, Siglufjord. The series is currently published in Iceland and Germany. Leading Icelandic TV production company Saga Film and award nominated actor Thor Kristjansson are developing a TV series based on the Northern Iceland Crime Series. The…
Janet Laurence is a writer of crime fiction, contemporary fiction and cookery books. One of her creations in the detective genre is Darina Lisle, a cook and caterer. She has written 10 novels featuring Darina Lisle between 1989 and 2001. The first was A Deepe Coffyn (1989) and the last to date was The Mermaid’s…
Quentin Bates is the author of a series of crime novels set in present-day Iceland, including Frozen Out and Chilled to the Bone, with an addition to the series, Thin Ice, due in 2016. He is also the translator of Ragnar Jónasson’s bestselling Snowblind and the forthcoming Nightblind.
Viveca Sten made her author debut with crime novel I de lugnaste vatten (Still Waters). It soon became a huge hit with both critics and readers and today the author has sold over 3 million copies of her books worldwide. Her novel I grunden utan skuld has been shortlisted for the 2015 Icepick Award for…
Alison Baillie’s first book, Sewing the Shadows Together, published in August 2015, is set in Edinburgh and the Outer Hebrides and was inspired in part by her years working as an English teacher in Edinburgh. She’s also taught EFL in Finland and Switzerland, where she now lives, but her heart will always be in Scotland.
Chris Ewan is the award-winning author of The Good Thief’s Guide to … series of mystery novels, which are in development with 20th Century Fox Television on behalf of Hart Hanson (Bones). The series comprises The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam (winner of The Long Barns Books First Novel Award), The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris, The…
Valerie Laws has had thirteen books published in various genres, four of them on Kindle: her two Bruce and Bennett Crime Thrillers, The Rotting Spot, and The Operator; her comedy Jane Austen novel Lydia Bennet’s Blog; and her poetry of sex, death and pathology, All That Lives. She is also world-infamous for spray-painting poetry onto live…
James Oswald is the author of the Detective Inspector McLean series of crime novels. Currently there are four available: Natural Causes, The Book of Souls, The Hangman’s Song and the latest, Dead Men’s Bones. He has also written an epic fantasy series, The Ballad of Sir Benfro. The first three of these, Dreamwalker, The Rose…
