Tom Harper aka Edwin Thomas<br/>I was born in West Germany in 1977 and grew up in Germany, Belgium and America. I studied history at Lincoln College, Oxford, worked for a while in the glamorous world of pensions services, and now write full time. I live in York with my wife and our son Owen. At last count, my novels have been sold into seventeen languages, from Brazil to Thailand. <br/>Under the name Edwin Thomas I've also written a series of historical adventures set in the Napoleonic wars. The first of these, The Blighted Cliffs, was runner-up for the CWA Debut Dagger award in 2001. <br/>I organised the Debut Dagger in 2005-2006, and from April 2010 I'll be Chair of the Crime Writers' Association. I'm a member of the Crime Writers' Association, the Historical Novels Society, and the Society of Authors. <br/>If you'd like to contact me, I'd love to hear from you. You can e-mail me at tom_AT_tom-harper.co.uk (replace the _AT_ with @ in your e-mail program). E-mails with subjects that make reference to me or my books are more likely to be read than those that reference Cialis or Viagra.