MARI HAnnah

Biography: Multi-award winning screenwriter and author Mari Hannah is the author of the Kate Daniels series of police procedurals, as well as the Ryan and O'Neil thrillers and the Stone and Oliver series.

Mari is a former Probation Officer whose career 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 has written multiple books which have been sold around the world in many different languages. She has also been named named Programming Chair for Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival in 2019 and winner of the 2020 Capital Crime’s Crime Book of the Year.

Mari is now developing the DCI Kate Daniels series for Sprout Pictures & Atlantic Nomad. She lives in a small Northumberland village with her partner, a former murder detective and is represented by Oli Munson of AM Heath for her books.

The Independent: ‘ satisfyingly dark and tense’

The Daily Mail on THE SILENT ROOM: ‘Taut storytelling and razor-sharp dialogue - not to mention Hannah's use of the Northumberland countryside - make this a novel not to be missed.’