DREDA SAY MITCHELL

Stories to die for. Characters to believe in.

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Dreda Say Mitchell is an award-winning and internationally best-selling author whose books have been translated into 14 languages. Ryan and Dreda have been collaborating since her fifth book.
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth ll awarded Dreda an MBE in her New Year’s Honours’ List. Dreda received the CWA’s John Creasey Dagger in 2004, the first time a Black British author has received this honour. Dreda and Ryan write across the crime and mystery genre – psychological thrillers, gritty gangland crime and fast-paced action books Spare Room, their first psychological thriller was a #1 UK and US Amazon Bestseller.
Dreda is a passionate campaigner and speaker on social issues and the arts. She has been a frequent guest on television and radio including Question Time, BBC Breakfast, Newsnight, Celebrity Pointless and Celebrity Eggheads, The Stephen Nolan Show, Front Row and Woman’s Hour. She has presented Radio 4’s flagship books programme, Open Book. She has appeared on Queen Camilla’s Reading Room. Dreda was named one of Britain’s 50 Remarkable Women by Lady Geek in association with Nokia. She was the 2011 chair of the Theakston Harrogate Crime Fiction Festival. Dreda was born and raised in the East End of London where she continues to live. Dreda’s family are from the beautiful Caribbean island of Grenada and her name is pronounced with a long vowel ‘ee’ in the middle.
Ryan worked in the computer industry before becoming a full-time writer. As well as writing partners, Dreda and Ryan are also life partners.
EXPLORE MY SERIES

WHAT I'M WORKING ON

The deeper into the past she digs, the higher the price she must pay for the truth.
It’s been ten years since Alison’s perfect world fell apart. Ten years since her son Sam disappeared while on a family holiday. Lost at sea, they said, his body never found. And even though her brother and sister were supposedly looking after the kids, Alison will always blame herself.
Caught in a spiralling web of all-consuming grief where the lines between reality and fantasy blur, Alison refuses to let go. So when her ex-husband seeks to have Sam officially pronounced dead, Alison embarks upon a desperate and harrowing quest to discover what really happened that day on the beach.
But is the truth worth losing what is left of her sanity?
PRAISE FOR DREDA
