Dudley Writers Festival

Tim Sullivan is a film director, screenwriter and novelist. He has directed multiple Granada, ITV and BBC TV productions and as a screenwriter has worked with film companies such as New Line, Universal and DreamWorks. He published his first crime novel, The Dentist, in 2020 which introduced the world to DS George Cross, a Bristol based socially awkward but brilliant detective with a high conviction rate. Following this up with seven more
DS Cross mysteries and four short stories in the DS Cross chronicles. In 2025 he was longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Dagger in the Library Award.

Simon McCleave is a multi-million-selling crime novelist who previously worked in script editing and production for the BBC and Channel 4 before becoming a story analysist in Los
Angeles. Film and television credits include The Full Monty, Silent Witness and the critically acclaimed Out of the Game. His first novel, The Snowdonia Killings was published in 2020
and introduced us to DI Ruth Hunter - a veteran police officer wrestling with the unsolved disappearance of her husband. There are now 23 books in the DI Ruth Hunter series and 4
books in a prequel series set in London. He has also penned six thrillers set on Anglesey and five in the Frank Marshall thriller series.