Desperate Measures

About the Author

Cath Staincliffe is an award winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV’s hit series Blue Murder, starring Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis which attracted an audience of 8.4 million viewers. Cath has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Best First Novel award and for the Dagger in the Library. She was joint winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2012 and shortlisted again in 2014. Looking For Trouble launched private eye Sal Kilkenny, a single parent struggling to juggle work and home, onto Manchester’s mean streets. Crying Out Loud is the eighth and latest title in the series. Letters To My Daughter’s Killer was selected for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club on ITV3 in 2014. Cath also writes the Scott & Bailey books based on the popular television cop-show. She is a founder member of Murder Squad and lives in Manchester with her family.

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