Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of crime novels, including the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel, and the historical crime novels The Ashes of London, The Silent Boy, and The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and a 2005 Richard Judy Book Club Choice.
He has won many awards, including the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (the only author to win it three times) and the CWA's prestigious Diamond Dagger.
Mark Mills graduated from Cambridge University in 1986. He has lived in both Italy and France, and has written for the screen.
His first novel, 'The Whaleboat House', won the 2004 Crime Writer's Association for Best Novel by a debut author. 'The Savage Garden' received stunning reviews and was a No 1 bestseller. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.
Sam Bourne is the pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland, an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He has written a weekly column for the Guardian since 1997, having previously served as the paper's Washington correspondent, and presents Radio 4's contemporary history programme, The Long View.
His first novel, The Righteous Men, was a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller. He lives in London with his wife and their two children.