FRED VARGAS was born is Paris. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is now a bestselling novelist and a two-time winner of the CWA International Dagger Award. Her novels include Have Mercy on Us All, Seeking Whom He May Devour, The Three Evangelists, Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands, and This Night’s Foul Work.
SIÂN REYNOLDS is a historian, translator and former professor at the University of Stirling in Scotland.