The Starlings and Other Stories

The "Murder Squad" is a collective of six British crime writers from the North of England, founded by <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL19458A" target="_blank">Margaret Murphy</a>. The core members are <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL338750A" target="_blank">Ann Cleeves</a>, <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL229332A" target="_blank">Martin Edwards</a>, <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL20197A" target="_blank">Kate Ellis</a>, Margaret Murphy, <a href="https:/...

British crime writer

Chris Simms has worked in airports, nightclubs, post offices and telesales centres. Along with nominations for Crime Writers’ Association Daggers and the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year award, Chris was selected by Waterstones as one of their ’25 authors for the future’. The idea for his debut novel, <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7916209W" target="_blank">Outside the White Lines</a>, came to him in the early hours of the morning while broken down on the hard shoulder of t...

Kate Ellis is the author of the Wesley Peterson mystery series, which includes titles such as Burial Circle and Death Season. She also writes short fiction, including the collection The Starlings and Other Stories. Readers who enjoy atmospheric crime fiction often turn to her books.