Clare Mackintosh

British crime novelist and former police officer. Mackintosh spent twelve years with Thames Valley Police before leaving in 2011 to write full-time. Her debut thriller I Let You Go (2014) was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2016. She has gone on to write psychological thrillers such as I See You, Let Me Lie and Hostage, along with the DC Ffion Morgan series set in Wales. Her novels have been translated into some forty languages.