Multi-award-winning author M.W. Craven was bornin Carlisle but grew up in Newcastle. He joined thearmy at sixteen, leaving ten years later to complete asocial work degree. Seventeen years after taking upa probation officer role in Cumbria, at the rank ofassistant chief officer, he became a full-time author.He is an instant Sunday Times bestseller and, for hisCumbria-set Washington Poe series, a recipient ofthe 2019 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger,the 2022 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the TheakstonOld Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023. The serieshas now been translated into thirty languages.
