Chantal Pelletier, a leading female crime writer in France, began her career as an actor. She founded a theatre company in Paris and is the author of novels, essays, plays and film scripts. It is not unusual to find her engaged simultaneously as author, director and actor in the same project. Ian Monk lives in France. He has translated a number of literary thrillers including four novels by Daniel Pennac and the best-selling novels The Blood-Red Rivers and The Stone Council by J-C Grange.

Chantal Pelletier, a leading female crime writer in France, began her career as an actor. She founded a theatre company in Paris and is the author of novels, essays, plays and film scripts. It is not unusual to find her engaged simultaneously as author, director and actor in the same project. Ian Monk lives in France. He has translated a number of literary thrillers including four novels by Daniel Pennac and the best-selling novels The Blood-Red Rivers and The Stone Council by J-C Grange.