Chris Ould is a BAFTA award-winning screenwriter who has worked on many TV shows including The Bill, Soldier Soldier, Casualty and Hornblower. He is the author of Road Lines and A Kind of Sleep, as well as the Street Duty Young Adult crime novels. He lives in Dorset.

A second book in the crime series set on the Faroe Islands, featuring Detective Jan Reyna, a native Faroese who has grown up in Britain but returns to the islands. Follows on from "The Blood Strand", will appeal to fans of Ann Cleeves and Peter May.