Crime Fest, the international crime fiction convention based in Bristol, is almost upon us. Author Lesley Thomson is set to feature on a panel Friday morning alongside Cara Black, Jeff Dowson and Niki Mackay titled ‘Down These Mean Streets: The Modern PI’.

Lesley’s first novel, Seven Miles from Sydney, is a crime thriller set in Australia. She also co-wrote actress Sue Johnston’s autobiography Hold on to the Messy Times. Lesley’s second novel  A Kind of Vanishing was published by Myriad in 2007 to critical acclaim, and won the People’s Book Prize for Fiction in 2010. She is also the author of  the number one bestseller The Detective’s Daughter, Ghost Girl and The Detective’s Secret. The seventh novel in this series, The Playground Murders, will be published in April.

Tickets are available via the Crime Fest website, along with the event programme: www.crimefest.com/buy-tickets