Clare Dudman was born in North Wales. She is a member of the Welsh Academy. Her books include children’s novel Edge of Danger, Wegener's Jigsaw and 98 Reasons for Being.
To research her latest novel, A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees  she travelled across the Patagonian desert in a bus, and then took 'The Old Patagonian Express' in the Andes.

Ann Cleeves has written over 23 novels. Her novel Raven Black won the coveted and prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger award and her books have been translated into 16 languages. Ann lives in Tyneside.

Charles Lambert was born in Lichfield in 1953. After brief periods in Ireland, Portugal and London he settled in Italy in 1976. His debut novel, Little Monsters was for John Harding, of the Daily Mail, 'beautifully written and crafted, and more compelling than many thrillers.'

Adam Nevill lives and works in London. His debut novel was titled Banquet for the Damned: 'pleasingly steeped in genre, yet he consciously tries to swirl in something new.' He is considered in the industry to be 'one of horror's rising stars.'