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Giles Blunt Author of Blackfly , By the Time You Read This and No Such Creature Photo © Janna Eggeheen Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay, Ontario. After spending over twenty years in New York City, he has recently moved back to Toronto. He has written scripts for Law & Order, Street Legal and Night Heat. More	Canada

Colin Cotterill Author of Thirty-Three Teeth , Disco for the Departed, Anarchy and Old Dogs and Curse of the Pogo Stick Photo © Jessica Wichaiwong Colin Cotterill is the author of The Coroner’s Lunch, Thirty-Three Teeth, Disco for the Departed, and Anarchy and Old Dogs, all featuring Dr. Siri Paiboun. He lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He received the Dilys Award for Thirty-Three Teeth from the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. More	Britain

John M. Gray Author of White Stone Day Photo © Stephen Lemay John MacLachlan Gray is a writer-composer-performer for the stage, film, television, radio and print. He is best known for his stage musicals, including the phenomenally successful Billy Bishop Goes to War, and for his satirical videos on CBC-TV’s The Journal. Gray is the recipient of many awards — a Golden Globe, the Governor General’s Medal and most recently the Order of Canada. More	Canada

Mo Hayder Author of Birdman and The Treatment Photo © Andre Heegar Mo Hayder lives in London, England. After leaving school at fifteen, she worked as a barmaid, security guard, film-maker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator and teacher in Vietnam. She now writes full time. More	Britain

Arnaldur Indridason Author of Arctic Chill Photo © Einar Falur Ingólfsson Arnaldur Indridason worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. He has published several thrillers, but it is for his Reykjavík Murder Mysteries — the series featuring Erlendur and Sigurdur Óli — that he is best known outside his native Iceland. More	Iceland

P. D. James Author of The Lighthouse, The Private Patient, Unnatural Causes , Shroud for a Nightingale, Death in Holy Orders, A Certain Justice and Talking About Detective Fiction Photo © Ulla Montan P. D. James is the author of 20 books, most of which have been filmed for television. Before her retirement in 1979, she served in the forensics and criminal justice departments of Great Britain's Home Office, and she has been a magistrate and a governor of the BBC. More	Britain

Chris Knopf Author of The Last Refuge, Two Time, Head Wounds and Short Squeeze Photo © Meagan Longcore Chris Knopf is a principal of Mintz & Hoke, a marketing communications agency. Born in Philadelphia, educated in the U.S. and London, Knopf lives with wife, Mary Farrell, in Avon, Connecticut and Southampton Village, Long Island, where he writes on the front porch. More	United States

Henning Mankell Author of Before the Frost, The Man Who Smiled, Kennedy's Brain and The Eye of the Leopard Photo © Ulla Montan Internationally acclaimed author Henning Mankell has written nine Kurt Wallander mysteries. The books have been published in thirty-three countries and consistently top the bestsellers lists in Europe, receiving major literary prizes (including the UK's Golden Dagger for Sidetracked) and generating numerous international film and television adaptations. More	Sweden

Liza Marklund Author of Red Wolf Liza Marklund is an author, publisher, journalist, columnist and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. She has written ten novels and one non-fiction book. Her crime novels featuring the gutsy reporter Annika Bengtzon instantly became an international hit, and Marklund's books have sold 19 million copies in 30 languages to date. More	Sweden

Grant McCrea Author of Dead Money ; Drawing Dead Once a high-school dropout, Grant McCrea is now an internationally regarded litigator. Euromoney Guide has named him one of the world's leading litigation lawyers. His principal area of practice is complex commercial litigation and arbitration, with a particular emphasis on international arbitration with Russian and Eastern European companies. Originally from Montreal, he now lives in New York City. More	Canada

Deon Meyer Author of Blood Safari Deon Meyer lives in Melkbosstrand on the South African West Coast with his wife and four children. He has written five novels, all of which have been highly acclaimed and translated into several languages. More	South Africa

Jo Nesbo Author of Nemesis Jo Nesbø, musician, economist and author of the best-selling series featuring Detective Harry Hole, has won many prizes for his novels, including the Glass Key, the Riverton Prize and the Norwegian Bookclub prize for best ever Norwegian crime novel. His first novel to be published in English was The Devil's Star and the second, The Redbreast, was shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger. He lives in Oslo. More	Norway

C.J. Sansom Author of Revelation C. J. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a Ph.D. in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex, until becoming a full-time writer. He lives in Sussex. More	Britain

Howard Shrier Author of Buffalo Jump and High Chicago Howard Shrier was born and raised in Montreal, where he earned an Honours Degree in Journalism and Creative Writing at Concordia University. Since then he has worked in a wide variety of media, including print, magazine and radio journalism, theatre and television, sketch comedy and improv. He has also been a senior communications advisor to government agencies. He now lives in Toronto with his wife and their two sons. More	Canada

Peter Temple Author of The Broken Shore Photo © Candy Bryce Five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, Peter Temple is Australia’s most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. He is the author of four Jack Irish novels: Bad Debts, Black Tide, Dead Point, and White Dog. He has also written four other novels: An Iron Rose, Shooting Star, In the Evil Day, and The Broken Shore, winner of the 2007 Gold Dagger Award. He lives in Victoria, Australia. More	Australia

Fred Vargas Author of Wash this Blood Clean from My Hand, The Three Evangelists and This Night's Foul Work Photo © Editions Viviane Hamy Fred Vargas was born in Paris. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she has now become a bestselling and award-winning novelist. More	France