Michael Ridpath

Michael Ridpath is the bestselling author of over 20 crime novels and thrillers.
His first novel, after a career in finance, was Free to Trade, a No 2 bestseller
about the murky world of bond trading which was translated into over thirty <r>languages. The success of that book enabled him to become a full-time writer.
He published seven more thrillers with a financial background before starting a
crime series set in Iceland featuring the Icelandic-American detective Magnus
Jonson. He has also written five stand-alone thrillers. He is currently writing
the Foreign Correspondent series of murder mysteries set in the capitals of
Europe in the 1930s. He splits his time between London and Massachusetts.