Femi Kayode works in advertising and writes for stage and screen. His debut novel, Lightseekers (2021), written during an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at UEA, won the Little, Brown/UEA Award and was widely acclaimed, with longlisting for the CWA Gold Dagger and selection as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. His second novel, Gaslight (2023), was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick, a Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, and shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. He lives in Windhoek, Namibia.

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Femi Kayode works in advertising and writes for stage and screen. His debut novel, Lightseekers (2021), written during an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at UEA, won the Little, Brown/UEA Award and was widely acclaimed, with longlisting for the CWA Gold Dagger and selection as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. His second novel, Gaslight (2023), was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick, a Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, and shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. He lives in Windhoek, Namibia.

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