Ann Cleeves lives in West Yorkshire with her husband and their two daughters. As a member of the ‘Murder Squad’, she works with other Northern writers to promote crime fiction.
She is also the author of the Inspector Ramsay series. More recently she has turned to writing psychological suspense novels, of which The Crow Trap was the first, followed by The Sleeping And The Dead. Her latest novel, Burial of Ghosts, will be available in Macmillan hardback in early 2003.