The Way We Lived Then

… And the way we died. Four bestselling historical crime writers explain how different crime was in the past – and yet how it’s very much the same as it’s always been.

Andrew Taylor’s A Schooling in Murder is an eerie mystery set in the dying days of WWII, told with trademark elegance and authenticity. The Rush, Beth Lewis’s bold and brilliant gold fever novel set in 1898 Yukon, tells of three women whose fates and fortunes hang in the balance. Traitor’s Legacy, the first in a dazzling new series from SJ Parris, features murder at the court of Elizabeth I and introduces us to agent Sophia de Wolfe. Shylashri Shankar’s breathtaking debut Blood Caste sees two unlikely allies investigate Jack the Ripper-like killings in Victorian India.

Author TE Kinsey will chair.