The Daves Next Door

Will Carver is the bestselling author of the January Series – Girl 4 (2011), The Two (2012), The Killer Inside (2013), Dead Set (2013) – and the critically acclaimed Detective Pace series, which includes Good Samaritans (2018), Nothing Important Happened Today (2019) and Hinton Hollow Death Trip (2020), all of which were selected as books of the year in mainstream international press. The books in this series have also been longlisted/shortlisted for the Amazon Readers Independent Voice Award, Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, Not The Booker Prize and the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award. Will spent his early years living in Germany, but returned at age eleven. He studied theatre and television at King Alfred’s Winchester, where he set up a successful theatre company. He currently runs his own fitness and nutrition business and lives in Reading with his children. Will's latest novel is Kill Them with Kindness (2025).

Sid Sagar is an award-winning London-based actor, writer, playwright and facilitator who has an Indian background. He grew up abroad and has lived in England since the age of eight. He studied at the University of Bristol and trained with the National Youth Theatre, Identity School of Acting and the Writers’ Lab at Soho Theatre. As an actor, he regularly works on stage and screen. As a writer, his short plays have been produced at various venues in London, including Southwark Playhouse, Theatre503 and Rich Mix. He’s currently under commission to the Almeida Theatre, Middle Child Theatre and BBC Radio 4. Sagar's first full length play, Dark Faces in the Night, was shortlisted for the Finborough Theatre’s ETPEP Award and was one of the winners of Rose Theatre Kingston’s inaugural New Writing Festival. Sagar is a proficient audiobook narrator who has more than 45 audiobook under his belt. He won an AudioFile Earphones Award for his narration of Victory City by Booker Prize–winning author Salman Rushdie. The judges commented that 'Sagar's narrative skill spans drama, humor, and suspense with equal alacrity, and the effect is thoroughly engaging'.