M.J. Arlidge has worked in television for the last twenty years, specialising in high-end drama production, including prime-time crime serials Silent Witness, Torn, The Little House and, most recently, the hit ITV show Innocent. In 2015 his audiobook exclusive Six Degrees of Assassination was a number-one bestseller. His debut thriller, Eeny Meeny, was the UK's bestselling crime debut of 2014 and has been followed by ten more DI Helen Grace thrillers - all Sunday Times bestsellers. Julia Crouch started out as a theatre director and playwright and came to fiction writing through a second career in graphic design and illustration. Her first novel, Cuckoo, came out in 2011, followed by nine more internationally published novels. In 2012 she coined the phrase Domestic Noir to describe her own brand of psychological thriller. She also teaches creative writing for The National Centre for Writing, was Visiting Fellow on the Crime Writing MA at the University of East Anglia and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Brighton.