Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard
Books read: 88/100
📚 The Wax Child
📺 Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Radicalized by discotheque music.
Sarah Pinborough @sarahpinborough.bsky.social Author and screenwriter. Sunday Times #1, & NYT Bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES on Netflix and INSOMNIA on Paramount+. Ted owner. WE LIVE HERE NOW coming Summer of 2025
Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social Atomic Blonde, Can You Solve the Murder, The Dog Sitter Detective, The Exphoria Code, The Organised Writer, Resident Evil Village, etc. I write all the things. Reps: http://antonyjohnston.com/contact
Nadine Matheson @nadinematheson.com Bestselling Author👩🏾💻 | Host of ‘The Conversation’ Podcast 🎙️| All Views My Own 💬
www.nadinematheson.com
Podcast: apple.co/3RSKsxK |Spotify spoti.fi/3DVDB0G
📗OUT NOW: ‘THE SHADOW CARVER’ - https://linktr.ee/Nadine_Matheson
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com 
Liz Nugent @liznugent.bsky.social No relation to Ted. Writer and rewriter. Sister and resister.
Scullery maid to the House of Goldblatt.
The Truth About Ruby Cooper in all good bookstores in Uk, Ireland and Commonwealth except Canada now. North America Sept 1st.
www.liznugent.com
Andrew Hunter Murray @andrewhunterm.bsky.social Author (A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering OUT NOW); No Such Thing As A Fish co-host, Private Eye joke-writer, Naked Week host. Agents are RCW (books) and The Agency (showbiz bébé).
Alafair Burke @alafairburke.bsky.social Criminal law professor. NYT bestselling author of 20+ crime novels. I like dogs and food (separately). Www.alafairburke.com. New book is THE NOTE–you should get it.
Catriona Ward @catrionaward.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author of LOOKING GLASS SOUND 🪞💀🪞, THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET, SUNDIAL & more Rep @jennysavill1 & @RStrausAgency Film/TV @mldean_& @unitedtalent
Ruth Ware @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social Still writing books... still drinking coffee... still making stuff up as I go along. The Woman in Suite 11 available to pre-order now at linktr.ee/ruthwarewriter
Find me at ruthware.com
James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social I write stuff
He/Him
https://jamesoswald.co.uk
‘Dr’ Dorothy Koomson @dorothykoomson.bsky.social 📚Award-winning, Sunday Times Bestselling Author | Writer ✍🏾 l Reader 📖 | TV & Film Lover 📺 | Podcaster 🎙️| Latest book Give Him To Me out now 📚⚡️
Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers.bsky.social Author. Scottish, Bengali, generally confused. “The Godfather of Anglo-Asian Crime Writing” (Daily Express) Rep’d by @stubbleagent
From Glasgow.
More here: abirmukherjee.com
and here: https://www.amazon.com/author/abirmukherjee
Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social Maltese born, Edinburgh novelist. ASD. Lapsed journalist. PhD St Andrews. Writes as Jonathan Grimwood, Jack G & Jon Courtenay G. Owns cat that’s a drug addict.
he/him
‘Triumphant…’ FT
http://jonathangrimwood.com
http://jackgrimwood.com
http://j-cg.co.uk
Lorelei King @loreleiking.bsky.social Actress, narrator, writer, loves ancient Greek. Charity ambassador for DementiaUK. 💙 Trustee for The National Covid Memorial Wall. ❤️ Immigrant.
Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social Psychological thriller/suspense author and Book Club Thriller author as L.C. North. Love reading, cockerpoos, coffee, running and chatting about writing
Alex North @alexnorth.co.uk Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling crime writer, based in Leeds, UK. I publish as Alex North but my friends call me Steve. www.alexnorth.co.uk
SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com Writes historical thrillers set in Renaissance Italy • SHADOW OF MADNESS out now: https://linktr.ee/D.V.Bishop • Free newsletter: https://dvbishop.substack.com • Rep: @jennybrownagency.bsky.social • Ex-Tharg
Andrew Reid @mygoditsraining.bsky.social Writer, teacher, maker. Novels: The Hunter (Headline, 2018), The Survivor (Minotaur, coming Spring 2026). Repped by Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment
Martyn Waites/CB Everett @martynwaites.bsky.social Writer. Crime. Horror. Doctor Who for Big Finish. Was once Tania Carver. New novel THE FINAL CHAPTER out now under the CB Everett name. Agent: James Wills at Watson Little. #MDANT and proud of it.
Michael Connelly @michaelconnelly.bsky.social Bestselling author of the Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller, Renée Ballard, and Jack McEvoy series. Run by his social media manager.
Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social Author. One half of Ambrose Parry. One sixth of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
Sarah Hilary @sarahhilary.bsky.social THE DROWNING PLACE | ‘Happy Valley, but haunted’ Anna Mazzola | Out now from Harvill | ND. She/her | www.sarahhilary.com
Holly Seddon @holly.bsky.social Author. Former journalist. THE SLEEPER COMING NOV '26 🇺🇸 AND JULY '27 🇬🇧. 59 MINUTES out now. Honest Authors pod. Represented by Camilla Bolton at Darley Anderson.
Rowan Coleman @rowancoleman.bsky.social Sunday Times and NYT best selling novelist and screenwriter. FROM UNTIL FOREVER (UK) coming 3/7/25 Also Stella Hayward THE GOOD BOY coming 8/7/25 (US) Loves Brontes. Loves Horror. Loves dogs. #ADHD #Dyslexic she/her. Supports 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️rights. Fan of equality.
Linwood Barclay @linwoodbarclay.bsky.social Writer, former trailer park operator
Elly Griffiths @ellygriffiths.bsky.social Crime-writer 
Emma Flint @emmaflint.bsky.social Writer. Awkward but terribly keen.
LITTLE DEATHS | OTHER WOMEN
Books, history, coffee, cats, stories, gin 🐈⬛
📚 Agent: Antony Topping
Longlisted: Women’s Prize | CWA Gold Dagger | Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year | Guardian Not The Booker
CL Taylor @callytaylor.bsky.social British crime author. Sunday Times bestseller. Richard & Judy pick. Mum, dog owner, knitter, crocheter, maker, watches a lot of TV.
Miranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social Writer, singer songwriter and sparkly little optimist in a dark, dark world... Six-times Sunday Times Bestseller, vlogger, podcaster and million-copy-seller. Also daft!
Nikki Smith @nikkismithauthor.bsky.social Author of thrillers. THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK out July ‘26 with Viking, Penguin.
Books: Sophie Lambert at C&W.
TV/Film: Luke Speed at Insight Mgt
Co-host of podcast IN SUSPENSE
https://linktr.ee/nikkismithauthor
Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social Novelist, rep’d by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social. Thrillers: #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
Dr Emma Kavanagh @dremmalk.bsky.social Author & psychologist specialising in how the brain works when the world gets extreme. Can be found rambling about trauma, psychology, neuroscience, books & dogs. The dog bit is the best bit. Is occasionally sarcastic. 
Julie (Mae) Cohen @juliecohen.bsky.social Author. Immigrant. Queer. Owned by dog. PhD student University of Reading.
Usually pissed off, but like in a funny way. Latest novels: BODY COUNT (UK), PARADISE (UK), EAT SLAY LOVE (US). Next novel: THE BEST OF ENEMIES
Beth Lewis @bethlewis.bsky.social Writer of all things crime, thriller, historical, weird & wonderful. The Wolf Road, Origins of Iris, THE RUSH (June 10th 2025) She/her.
Rep: David Headley at DHH.
http://bethlewis.co.uk
Will Carver @willcarver.bsky.social Award-winning writer. Drinker. Non-preachy vegan.
BAD INFLUENCE, June 18th, 2026.
Nick Quantrill @nickquantrill.bsky.social Writer of crime novels and does Hull Noir. Will also contain football and moaning. #MDANT
"Cast No Shadow" out now via Black Spring Press.
Sinéad Crowley @sineadcrowley.bsky.social Reader, writer, talker, listener. New novel loading
Chris McDonald / Chris Frost @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social Author: Erika Piper, Stonebridge, Little Ghost. THE KILLER’S CHRISTMAS LIST. Represented by David Headley. Co-founder of Stockport Noir.
S J Watson @sjwatson.bsky.social Writing. Photography. Drinking. Bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep. Podcaster. Substacker. Procrastinator. Dog dad. Tired.
Just your ordinary average everyday sane psycho super-goddess.
Alexandra Benedict @alexandrakbenedict.bsky.social Also A K Benedict. Internationally bestselling writer of crime/strange/spooky novels, stories and scripts. Pan, audhd. MURDER ON THE CHRISTMAS EXPRESS. THE CHRISTMAS JIGSAW MURDERS. LITTLE RED DEATH out Feb 2025 from S&S. Agent @dianabeaumont.bsky.social
Susi Holliday @susiholliday.bsky.social Scottish crime/thriller author and horror fan.
Not currently spending time on here 🤷🏻♀️
https://linktr.ee/susiholliday
Fiona Erskine @chemicaldetective.bsky.social Engineer by day. Writer by night.
Outdoor swimmer in between.
www.fionaerskine.com
Agent: Juliet Mushens Publishers: Point Blank (Oneworld), Sandstone Press
Heather J Fitt @heatherjfitt.bsky.social 📚 Open Your Eyes 📚The Flight 📚The Boat Trip 📚Author 📚Editor/Blog Tour Organiser 📚 General Coordinator for the CWA (All views my own.)
heatherjfitt.com
Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social 'Queen of spy fiction' - the Guardian. 'The real thing' - the Washington Post. Author of the Emma Makepeace series, The Hiding Season, and other books under other identities. Former gov't comms. Many names – Not a spy.
https://linktr.ee/avaglass
Clare Mackintosh - Author @claremackwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling author. Amazon #1 bestseller.
🇬🇧 Mantle, Pan-Macmillan
🇺🇸 Atria, Simon & Schuster
Agent: Antony Topping @greeneandheaton.bsky.social
https://www.laurashepherdrobinson.com/
Trevor Wood @trevorwoodwrite.bsky.social Writer of crime. Music lover. Bars of the World!
Lesley Kara @lesleykara.bsky.social Sunday Times Top Ten and Amazon #1 bestselling author of THE RUMOUR (coming soon to Channel 5 🤩) and other psychological thrillers. Co-presenter of the In Suspense podcast. Rep’d by Amanda Preston, LBA Books. TROUBLEMAKER coming soon. www.lesleykara.com
Neil Lancaster @neillancaster66.bsky.social Black Isle based crime writer of The Max Craigie series, occasionally known for writing spy thrillers as Max Connor
Repped by Kerr Macrae at LPA
www.neillancastercrime.co.uk
Erin Kelly @mserinkelly.bsky.social my job is book
Jack Jordan @jackjordanbooks.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of 8 thrillers 🫀Do No Harm ⚖️ CONVICTION 🦂 REDEMPTION out now! Rep: Madeleine Milburn. He/him🏳️🌈
C.J. Tudor - Author @cjtudor.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author - The Chalk Man, The Taking of Annie Thorne, The Other People, The Burning Girls (Netflix), The Drift and The Gathering. Dog lover. Gin drinker. Tattoo enthusiast. Disturbingly cheery. Serenity Falls out Sept 10, 2026!
A.A. Chaudhuri @aachaudhuri.bsky.social Amazon bestselling thriller author rep’d by Annette Crossland, pub’d by Hera Books - She’s Mine, The Loyal Friend, The Final Party, Under Her Roof; Isis Audio/Joffe Books - The Lawyer,The Partner aachaudhuri.com
The School Gates OUT NOW!
Rob Parker @robparkerauthor.bsky.social Author, host, podcast hyena.
www.robparkerauthor.com
Graham Bartlett @gbpoliceadvisor.bsky.social 🚔 Advising authors, TV writers, doc makers.
✍️ Award-winning crime writer: BAD FOR GOOD, FORCE OF HATE & CITY ON FIRE. Repped by DHH Literary Agency.
🤓 Mentor with Jericho Writers.
🕵️♂️ Retired police C/Supt.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/grahambartlett
Victoria Goldman @victoriagoldman.bsky.social Journalist. Editor. Author. Crocheter.
https://linktr.ee/victoriagoldman
Awais Khan @awaiskhan.bsky.social Award-winning author of 4 novels. Published by Simon & Schuster, Orenda Books and Hera Books | TED Speaker | Founder of The Writing Institute | Represented by Annette Crossland.
Erin Young @erinyoungauthor.bsky.social Crime writer - currently writing dark thrillers set in Iowa. THE FIELDS (shortlisted for ITW novel of the year, in development for TV), ORIGINAL SINS (NYT book of the week, Times thriller of the month). Also writes historical fiction as Robyn Young. 
Ed James @edjamesauthor.bsky.social Scottish crime author. Marshall, Fenchurch, Cullen, Dodds.
Books: Linktr.ee/edjamesauthor
Laura Marshall @lauramarshall.bsky.social Writer of novels.
Agent: Felicity Blunt at Curtis Brown.
Paul Burston @paulburston.bsky.social Writer. Fighter. Lover. Memoir We Can Be Heroes out now. Founder of Polari literary salon and The Polari Prize. paulburston.substack.com
Lin Anderson @linanderson.bsky.social A free spirit. Also crime writer & co-founder of the @BloodyScotland international crime writing festival.
Twitter: Lin_Anderson
Instagram: LinAndersonWriter
Threads: LinAndersonWriter
Web: http://www.lin-anderson.com
Jen Faulkner @jenfaulknerwriter.bsky.social Writer, teacher, #PCD mum.
#WhatGoesAround OUT NOW WITH Bloodhound Books. 
Amer Anwar @ameranwar.com Author of crime thrillers. Avid reader. Huge movie and TV fan. Buy books faster than I can read them. My house is one big TBR pile. London, UK.
Lisa Hall @lisahallauthor.bsky.social Writer/reader/reviewer. Bestselling author. Rep’d by Lisa Moylett @ CMM Agency. The Mysterious Double Death of Honey Black is out now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-Double-Death-Honey-Black-ebook/dp/B0CH8ZJ5SF 
Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social Writer of books and other stuff, translator of other people's books. Á það til að þusa á Íslensku. If you send me a DM, I won't see it. So please don't.
graskeggur.com
Kit Conway @kitconwayauthor.bsky.social Author | Cat Fight coming May 🇬🇧 June 🇺🇸 2025 🐆
Emma Curtis @emmacurtisauthor.bsky.social Author of 1 bestseller One Little Mistake When I Find You The Night You Left Keep Her Quiet Invite Me In. New! The Babysitter 12.10.23 @CorvusBooks @oliagent
Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social Crime writer among other strange things.
Neil Broadfoot @nlbro.bsky.social Crime writer, reader. Whisky lover…
William Shaw @william1shaw.bsky.social Writes books. Lives in Glenbeigh, co Kerry. Mostly. williamshaw.com
Roxie Key #TheDeadlySpark 🔥 @roxiekey.bsky.social Freelance Copywriter & Author of The Deadly Spark (HQ HarperCollins)
Available now 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
Repped by Maddalena Cavaciuti at David Higham Associates 📚
Member of the Crime Writers' Association ⚔️
She/Her 🏳️🌈
@niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social Frightening people for a living
Amanda Jennings @amandajennings.bsky.social Author, mother of girls. Gimme snow, mountains, beaches and travel. Keep your raw tomatoes to yourself, you crazy kid.
Imogen Robertson/ Marina Palmer @imogenrobertson.bsky.social Many words. Westerman & Crowther, Paris Winter, The Russian Doll as Marina Palmer. The House w Tom Watson. Chair HWA. Ghost. Last Retreat out in Aug. Pre-order away! (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/1635/9781399709781)
Barbara Copperthwaite | Barbara Havelocke @authorbarbara.bsky.social Barbara Copperthwaite: best-selling psychological thrillers.
Barbara Havelocke: Gothic historical fiction.
Owned by three dogs, Buddy, Scamp & Arty.
Andrea Mara @andreamara.bsky.social Sunday Times, Irish Times, and Kindle bestselling author. Someone in the Attic, No One Saw A Thing, All Her Fault out now with Transworld. Agent: Diana Beaumont.
Helen Fields @crimediva.bsky.social Writer of all things criminal. Recovering barrister. Carlsbad/Edinburgh/Arundel. Fan of long, late night chats and reading books that scare the bejesus out of me. Licorice is the way to my heart. Here for Luc & Ava info. 
Caroline (Cass) Green @carog.bsky.social Books for grown ups and children too. Confusing array of names. Sunday Times Bestseller and whatnot.
https://estore.city.ac.uk/short-courses/continuing-education/writing/fiction/crime-and-thriller-writing
Brian McGilloway @brianmcgilloway.bsky.social Author, screenwriter and PhD candidate.
www.brianmcgilloway.com
William Ryan @williamryan.bsky.social Writing books, reading books, eating quickly, cycling slowly, standing on hands. Sometimes all at once. 
Lucie Whitehouse @luciewhitehouse.bsky.social Writer of the Robin Lyons crime series and psych suspense including Before We Met. Englishwoman in Brooklyn. 
Lisa Cutts @lisacutts.bsky.social Retired detective turned crime writer.
Author of 6 police procedurals, 3 cosy crime mysteries and one non-fiction. NEW THRILLER OUT NOW! Twisted Lies.
Elle Wild (Author) @ellewildauthor.bsky.social "Highly Commended" Cheshire Novel Prize '23. Best First Novel CWC '17, Strange Things Done. "The Girl on a Train meets Robert Service" --Toronto Star. Rep: AM Heath, London. Twitter is my X.
Niki Mackay @nikimackay.bsky.social I’m an author #TheDueDate is out now. I’m currently writing horror. I also teach Creative Writing and I am a Royal Literary fellow. 🤓✍️
William Hussey @whusseyauthor.bsky.social Award-winning author of the SCOTT JERICHO thrillers (KILLING JERICHO; JERICHO’S DEAD; BURYING JERICHO) and YA novels, including THE BOY I LOVE, BROKEN HEARTS AND ZOMBIE PARTS, and THE OUTRAGE among others
https://linktr.ee/williamhusseyauthor
Jenny Quintana @jennyquintana.bsky.social Author. The Missing Girl, The Hiding Place, Our Dark Secret
@MantleBooks @panmacmillan
Agent @davidhheadley.bsky.social
Sarah Ward @sarahwardcrime.bsky.social Crime writer and storyteller. Also Rhiannon Ward. 🏴 13th book, Grave Intent, out in June with Canelo. It’s books, churches, genealogy, knitting & cats.
Caroline Mitchell @carolinemitchell.bsky.social Professional daydreamer & ex-copper. Writer of twisty thrillers & founder of Brave The Page online writing course. 
Ian Skewis @ianskewis.bsky.social Editor, Writer and Publisher.
Professional Member of the CIEP.
Contact: http://ianskewis.com
John Rickards @johnrickards.bsky.social Freelance editor, sometime writer, occasional trade journo and general dogsbody. Decent human being. Find me at johnrickards.com