Kate Rhodes & Alison Stockham | Thrillers to Chill Us
Sat 22 Nov 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Two of Cambridge’s finest crime writers come together to discuss their latest, unputdownable novels.
In Survivors Guilt, the breathtaking new instalment of Kate Rhodes’ acclaimed Isles of Scilly Mysteries, winter storms lash the islands as DI Ben Kitto makes a chilling discovery: the remains of a young Vietnamese woman buried on remote St Helen’s. Cut off from the mainland by wild weather, Ben must race to find a ruthless killer who is ready to strike again… at unimaginable cost.
Meanwhile, in Alison Stockham’s gripping new psychological thriller Let Her Go, Hannah’s world is upended when her best friend Libby vanishes without a trace. With no calls, no texts and a husband insisting she simply “needed space”, Hannah’s search for the truth uncovers secrets that force her to ask: did she ever really know her best friend at all?
How do writers craft such twisty, addictive tales; the kind that keep us reading late into the night? Join Kate and Alison as they reveal their inspirations, writing processes, and the mysteries behind the mysteries.
Venue: Cambridge Union Library
Duration: 1 hour 15 mins
Tickets available soon.
Author Biography
Kate Rhodes is an acclaimed crime novelist and an award-winning poet, selected by Val McDermid’s New Blood panel at Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival for her debut, Crossbones Yard. She has been nominated twice for the prestigious CWA Dagger in the Library award, and is one of the founders of the Killer Women writing group. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, the writer and film-maker Dave Pescod, and visited the Scilly Isles every year as a child, which gave her the idea for the critically acclaimed Isles of Scilly Mysteries series.
Alison Stockham is a Cambridge based writer of psychological thrillers and domestic suspense novels, exploring why people make the choices that they do. From a background in film and television production, working in film dramas and TV documentary production for the BBC and Channel 4, she then worked as the Events Coordinator for Cambridge Literary Festival. Now writing full time, she lives with her husband, their children and their cat, who keeps her company while she writes her next novel.
