Gaslight by UEA alumnus Femi Jayode has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s Ian Flemming Steel Dagger Award, an award for thrillers set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction, psychological thrillers and action/adventure stories. Femi graduated from the MA in Crime Fiction at UEA in 2018, where he was the recipient of the Little, Brown UEA Crime Writing Prize. He has worked for the last twenty years in advertising, during which time was was also a Packard Gates Fellow in Film at the University of Southern California and a Gates Fellow in International Health at the University of Washington. He has also written and developed several award-winning TV dramas. Femi lives in Namibia with his wife and two sons. His debut novel Lightseekers was published by Raven Books in 2021 and was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Her second novel, Gaslight, was published by Raven books in 2023 and was a Sunday Times Best Crime Book of the Month in November 2023.
Femi Kayode shortlisted for CWA Steel Dagger
