Meg Gardiner is originally from Southern California, where she practiced law and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of five Evan Delaney novels and the Jo Beckett thrillers, The Memory Collector, The Liar’s Lullaby and The Nightmare Thief. She lives with her family near London.

Praise for THE MEMORY COLLECTOR: 'The next suspense superstar' STEPHEN KING 'Meg Gardiner is an astonishing writer' TESS GERRITSEN Praise for THE LIAR'S LULLABY: 'Full of just the kind of detailed, nail-biting drama that Gardiner does so well... Gardiner is brilliant at making the highly implausible convincing, and switches effortlessly from high tension to tenderness and heartache' GUARDIAN Praise for THE NIGHTMARE THIEF: 'One of the most exciting openings of a crime book I have come across ... a tense, thrill-a-second race against time as everyone present is forced to confront real life-changing danger' DAILY MAIL