Only the Brave (30 page)

About the Author

Photo © 2013 Martin Brough

Mel Sherratt has been a self-described ‘meddler of words’ ever since she can remember. After winning her first writing competition at the age of eleven, she has rarely been without a pen in her hand or her nose in a book.

Since successfully publishing
Taunting
the Dead
and seeing it soar to the rank of #1 bestselling police procedural in the Amazon Kindle store in 2012, Mel has gone on to publish four more books in the critically acclaimed The Estate Series and a psychological thriller,
Watching over You.

Mel was shortlisted for the Crime Writer’s Association
Dagger
in the Library Award 2014 and has written feature articles for
The Guardian
, the Writers and Artists website and
Writers’ Forum
Magazine, to name just a few. She regularly speaks at conferences, events and festivals.

She lives in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, with her husband and her terrier, Dexter (named after the TV serial killer, with some help from her Twitter fans), and makes liberal use of her hometown as a backdrop for her writing.

Her website is
www.melsherratt.co.uk
and you can find her on Twitter at
@writermels
.