Simon McCleave is a million-selling crime novelist who lives in Wales with his wife and children. His first book, , was an Amazon Bestseller, and all other novels in the DI Ruth Hunter series ranked in the Top20. The books are now set to be filmed as a major television series. , the first book in an Anglesey based crime series, was a hit in 2022. Reaching Amazon’s UK Top10, it became the highest selling Waterstone’s Welsh Book of the Month ever.