Matthew Ryan

Starting with The Silent Room, Mari Hannah’s series of crime fiction novels featuring DS Matthew have been described by the Sun as ‘a rollercoaster of a ride involving corruption, surveillance and espionage . . . the author is a brilliant writer’. Ryan tackles the most sinister of cases in Newcastle, Northumbria and further afield. A former probation officer, Mari won the CWA Dagger in the Library award in 2017 and was Reader in Residence for the 2016 Harrogate International Crime Writing Festival.