Multi-award winning, bestselling author/screenwriter Mari Hannah is the creator of the Kate Daniels thrillers, the Ryan & O'Neil and the Stone & Oliver series. She lives in a small Northumberland village with her partner, a former murder detective.
Mari’s career as a Probation Officer was cut short following an assault on duty. It was then that the idea that she might one day become a writer began to form in her head.
Fast forward a few years and she was named Programming Chair for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2019, the biggest of its type in the world.
In development: The DCI Kate Daniels series (Sprout Pictures & Atlantic Nomad)
Awards:
2010: Northern Writers' Award for Settled Blood.
2013: Polari First Book Prize for her crime debut, The Murder Wall.
2017: Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library for her body of work.
2019: DIVA Wordsmith of the Year.
2020: Capital Crime’s Crime Book of the Year for Without A Trace.
Photograph by Ian Wylie