Join our panellists who will be discussing the current craze for cosy mysteries. The genre enjoys a host of appealing conventions like crime-solving amateur sleuths, comedy, close knit communities and idiosyncratic characters, but can crime ever be truly ‘cosy’? Settle in to find out.

Robert Thorogood is an English screenwriter and Sunday Times Bestselling novelist who created the BBC One murder mystery series Death in Paradise and its spin-off shows, Beyond Paradise and Return to Paradise. He is author of The Marlow Murder Club series set in Buckinghamshire.

Ian Moore is a best-selling author and stand-up comedian who divides his time between rural France and the UK. He is also a husband, father of three boys, farmhand, chutney-maker and Basil Fawlty impersonator. Since doing less stand-up, he’s stopped taking himself so seriously.

Fiona Leitch is the author of the Jodie Parker series for HarperCollins, as well as Audible Exclusive ‘Dead in Venice’, recently optioned by BBC Studios. She’s written for football magazines, been the token female at a motoring media agency, and Dj’d at illegal raves, as well as appearing in a TV commercial for a cleaning product called ‘Sod Off’. All of which has given her a thorough grounding in the ridiculous and helps her write funny stuff. Fiona writes quirky mysteries because she loves thinking about beautiful locations and killing people, not necessarily in that order, and she’s a sucker for a happy ending, though not for the victim, obviously.

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