Martin Edwards

Website: http://www.martinedwardsbooks.com

A partner in a firm of solicitors, working in Merseyside and living in Cheshire, Martin Edwards is the author of two acclaimed series of crime novels, one set in Liverpool and the other in the Lake District.

He is chairman of the nominations sub-committee for the Crime Writers’ Association’s most prestigious award for lifetime achievement, the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger, and in 2007 he was appointed the Archivist of the CWA. A member of the Murder Squad collective, he received the CWA Short Story Award in 2008 for the best crime story of the year.