Michael Ridpath

Michael Ridpath is the bestselling author of over 20 crime novels and thrillers. His first novel, after a career in finance, was Free to Trade, a No 2 bestseller about the murky world of bond trading which was translated into over thirty languages. The success of that book enabled him to become a full-time writer. He published seven more thrillers with a financial background before starting a crime series set in Iceland featuring the Icelandic-American detective Magnus Jonson. He has also written five stand-alone thrillers.

He is currently writing the Foreign Correspondent series of murder mysteries set in the capitals of Europe in the 1930s, featuring Sir Archie Laverick, a shell-shocked biographer, and Esme Carmichael, a young American with dreams of becoming a foreign correspondent. The first of these, Operation Berlin, takes place in 1930. This is followed by Operation Vienna (1931) and Operation Paris (1932). He splits his time between London and Massachusetts.