Join us in welcoming Kia Abdullah, Lily Samson & CL Taylor, three incredibly talented crime fiction authors. Hosted by Zubs Malik join us in delving into the minds of those writing the most notorious and acclaimed psychological thrillers of the year!
Kia Abdullah is the bestselling author of five novels. She has been longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and won the Adult Fiction Diverse Book Award (2022) and a JB Priestley Award for Writers of Promise (2020). She has written for the New York Times, the Guardian and the FT among others, and has been likened in the Times to writers as diverse as John Grisham and Jane Austen.
Lily Samson studied English at Oxford University and works in publishing. She divides her time between London and Paris, where her French partner resides. In her spare time, she enjoys watching Hitchcock movies and moonlighting as a freelance artist. Her debut thriller The Switch was published in 2024 to widespread critical acclaim, with TV rights sold to Sony Pictures and Matt Tolmach Productions (producer of The Amazing Spiderman).
C.L. Taylor is an award winning Sunday Times bestselling author of ten gripping psychological thrillers including EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick for autumn 2024, THE GUILTY COUPLE,(Richard and Judy Book Club 2023) and SLEEP (Richard and Judy Book Club2019). IT’S ALWAYS THE HUSBAND is her eleventh book.
Her books have sold over two million copies in the UK alone, regularly hit number one on Amazon Kindle, Audible, Kobo, iBooks and Google Play, and have been translated into over 30 languages and optioned for TV. C.L. Taylor lives in Bristol with her partner and son.
