Mark Eklid - FACT TO FICTION: From sports journalist to crime thriller writer

Derby Book Festival has teamed up with the Society of Authors, Derby Libraries and Derbyshire Library Service to organise a series of talks by local authors in libraries across the city and county in June with more planned in the autumn. 

A resident of Derby, Mark Eklid was an award-winning regional newspaper sports journalist before switching from cricket to crime thrillers. Mark published his first novel ‘Sunbeam’ in 2019, then came ‘Family Business’ and ‘Catalyst’, and these were quickly followed up by ‘The Murder of Miss Perfect’ and ‘Blood on Shakespeare’s Typewriter’ which were both published through SpellBound Books. In June 2024 Mark self-published, ‘The 23-Day Girlfriend’. All six novels, have received top reviews on Amazon, and are fast-moving, plot-twisting crime thrillers set in the city of his birth, Sheffield.