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Tom Mead

Tom Mead’s short fiction has appeared in publications ranging from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine to The Best Mystery Stories of the Year, and his debut locked-room mystery novel Death and the Conjuror (Mysterious Press, 2022; Head of Zeus, 2023) was an international bestseller, and named one of the best mysteries of 2022 by Publishers Weekly.Continue reading “Tom Mead”

Essie Fox

Hello, I’m Essie Fox, and it’s lovely to be here on the Books By Your Bedside blog. I was born in Herefordshire and left home at eighteen to study English Literature at Sheffield University. From there, I moved to London where I worked for the Telegraph Sunday Magazine, and then the publishers Allen & UnwinContinue reading “Essie Fox”