Multi-award winning, bestselling author/screenwriter Mari Hannah is the creator of the Kate Daniels series, 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 of the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival 2019, as well as judging the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.

TV adaptations . . .

In active development: The DCI Kate Daniels series with Sprout Pictures & Atlantic Nomad.

In development: The Stone & Oliver series with Buccaneer Media

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.

2017: Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2017 for The Silent Room

2019: DIVA Wordsmith of the Year.

2020: Capital Crime’s Crime Book of the Year for Without A Trace.