Northern Noir at The Bar

Liz Mistry, moved to Yorkshire the late ’80s, She crafts gritty crime fiction rooted in Bradford. Childhood tales from Scotland infuse her work with intrigue, inspiring her latest series set in West Lothian. Battling clinical depression and anxiety, she intertwines mental health themes into her narratives, influenced by her MA in Creative Writing from Leeds Trinity University. Completing a doctorate in creative writing, she explores representation in her beloved genre. Supported by her husband, three children, and a vast British Indian family, Liz finds solace in Scottish and Yorkshire landscapes, travel, music, and blogging on crime fiction.

Daniel Sellers is the author of the Kindle-bestselling Lola Harris Mysteries and is an obsessive fan of Agatha Christie. The first in a new series set in West Yorkshire in the 1990s, The Lollipop Man, was published by Allison & Busby in February 2025. Daniel’s crime thrillers are pacy and dark, with as much interest in whydunnit as who. He grew up in Yorkshire, and has lived and worked in Liverpool, Glasgow, Ireland and Finland. He now lives in Argyll in Scotland.

David Mark spent more than 15 years as a journalist, including seven years as a crime reporter with The Yorkshire Post—walking the Hull streets that would later become the setting for the Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy novels. He is a Sunday Times and Amazon bestselling novelist and the author if 26 critically acclaimed novels. He lives in Northumberland.

Nina Bhadreshwar trained as a journalist in South Yorkshire before starting her own international arts magazine, The Real State, in the early nineties. This became her passport to America where she worked as a press officer and publicist in the music industry, later branching into screenplay writing and performing stand-up comedy. Later, she worked as a high school teacher in the UK and in California. She has worked as a muralist and mentor for foster youth in California, writing poetry, journalism and various scripts for several decades before completing her MA in Crime Fiction at UEA and winning the 2022’s UEA Little Brown Crime Fiction Award for her debut novel The Day of the Roaring. She is currently completing a PhD at Dundee University. Her second novel will be published next year.