Join best selling e-book writer Lis Howell ( The Suzy Spencer Mysteries) to find out why cosy crime has taken off massively in the last 10 years. Publishers Joffe Books (supporting this session) sell thousands of low violence, high mystery crime e-novels every year. New authors, and known names like Simon Brett are achieving huge sales figures. And in the traditional publishing world Swift Press have achieved a signal success with Maureen Paton's 'The Mystery at Rake Hall' with C S Lewis as an unlikely detective. Simon Brett and Maureen Paton join Lis to explore and explain this genre. Simon Brett is a veteran cosy crime writer whose sleuth Charles Paris has been portrayed on BBC Radio 4 for thirty years - the latest reiteration in 2023 with Bill Nighy. Maureen Paton is a star newcomer to the genre whose debut novel made the Times and the Telegraph top crime books of 2025. And if you're an aspiring crime writer, we've also got self publisher Marcus Rowntree to talk you through how to go it alone - if you dare!

Join us, if you love crime with character but without the noir. Readers and writers welcome, but leave your lead piping in the billiard room!