Bio

Martin Edwards has published four novels set in the 1930s and featuring Rachel Savernake, as well as series based in the Lake District and Liverpool. He has won many awards for his fiction and non-fiction, including the CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in UK crime writing, an Edgar, an Agatha and two Macavitys. He was recently presented with the George N. Dove award by the Popular Culture Association for his work in the crime genre. He is President of the Detection Club and consultant to the bestselling British Library Crime Classics.