Val McDermid

Val McDermid

female, 54 years old
novelist, The Mermaids Singing, Junior Common Room, Wire in the Blood, Gold Dagger, Crime Writers' Association…Crime writer
Val McDermid (born June 4,1955) is a Scottish crime writer
Reginald Hill

Reginald Hill

male, 73 years old
West Hartlepool, Crime Writers' Association, County Durham, Joe Sixsmith, Colin Buchanan, Dalziel and Pascoe…Crime writer
Reginald Hill (born in 1936 at West Hartlepool in County Durham) is a contemporary English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime...
John Harvey

John Harvey

male, 71 years old
Alumni of the University of Nottingham, Lonely Hearts, Diamond Dagger, Flesh and Blood, Charlie Resnick, 100 Greatest Crime Novels of the Century…Crime Writers' Association, crime fiction
John Harvey (born 1938) is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of ten jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels, based in the...
Fred Vargas

Fred Vargas

female, 52 years old
twin, Crime fiction writer, novelist, Gold Dagger, years of lead, Seeking Whom He May Devour…Crime Writers' Association
Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of French historian, archaeologist and writer Frédérique Audouin-Rouzeau, born in 1957 in Paris.
Peter Temple

Peter Temple

male, 63 years old
Duncan Lawrie Dagger, Crime Writers' Association, In the Evil Day, Ned Kelly Award, An Iron Rose, Black Tide…Crime writer, crime fiction
Peter Temple, born 1946, is an Australian crime fiction writer. Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in...

Robert Wilson

male, 52 years old
Oxford University, The Silent and the Damned, The Blind Man of Seville, A Small Death In Lisbon, The Vanished Hands, crime novelist…Crime Writers' Association, Crime writer
Robert Wilson (born 1957) is a British crime-writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in...

C. J. Sansom

male, 57 years old
sovereign, henry viii, 16th century, dissolution, Thomas Cromwell, Alumni of the University of Birmingham…Crime Writers' Association, crime, crime fiction
C. J. Sansom is an English writer of crime novels. He came to prominence with his series set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century, whose...
Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter

female, 39 years old
Crime Writers' Association, novelist, Thriller writer, American, thriller, Blindsighted
Karin Slaughter, is a highly praised US author who debuted with her novel "Blindsighted" in 2001. It became an international success and made the...
Louise Welsh

Louise Welsh

female
Tamburlaine Must Die, Saltire Society, short stories, author, P.D. James, Man Booker…Crime Writers' Association
Louise Welsh is an author of short stories and novels in Glasgow, Scotland. Welsh studied history at Glasgow University and traded in second-hand...

Laura Wilson

female
cwa, Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, Gold Dagger, Crime Writers' Association, Somerville College, The Lover…Crime writer
Laura Wilson is an English crime-writer based in London, where she was born and raised. She has degrees in English Literature form Somerville...