Hansjörg Schneider (born 1938) lives in Basel and began his professional career as a journalist and essayist. He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed plays and of the bestselling Hunkeler crime series, now with ten titles published. “The Basel Killings”, the first to be published in English, was awarded The Friedrich Glauser Prize.
The godfather of New Zealand crime writing. Often called Elmore Leonard on acid.Thomas has written a bestselling series featuring maverick Maori cop Tito Ihaka, of which 'Death on Demand' is the latest.
Janet Todd is best known for her non-fiction feminist works on early women writers and for her books about Mary Wollstonecraft, Aphra Behn, and Jane Austen.
Nicolas Verdan was born in Vevey, Switzerland in 1971. He was a prominent journalist before turning full-time to fiction. The Greek Wall is his first thriller.
James Wolff was a British intelligence officer for over ten years before leaving to write espionage novels. Beside the Syrian Sea is his first novel and the first in The Discipline Files trilogy.How to Betray Your Country is the second and The Man in the CorduroySuit the third.