The Ripper file

MEL SHERRATT is a bit of a publishing phenomenon just now and her latest police procedural Hush Hush has received acclaim from many of her peers, including genre big-hitters Ian Rankin and Rachel Abbott. Since 2012 she has sold over one million books. All 11 of her crime novels have been bestsellers, each one climbing into the Kindle UK top 10, and there have been several Number Ones. This latest project involves a new detective, DS Grace Allendale, who is trying to cope with

KERRY BARNES certainly didn't take the normal route to becoming an author of gangland novels. Having grown up on a council estate in the South East of England she began life as a microbiologist and then went into medicine. It was only when her daughter was born that she began to take her writing seriously and by the time her children were grown, she had written four novels. Ruthless and Ruby's Palace were the first books she wrote and before rushing to judgement I will probab