Ashley Dyer is the pen-name of novelist, Margaret Murphy, working in consultation with forensics expert and Vera and Shetland adviser, Helen Pepper. Splinter in the Blood is their debut novel as a writing duo. The sequel, The Cutting Room, will be published by William Morrow in June 2019. Margaret Murphy is a former Writing Fellow and reading Round Lector for the Royal Literary Fund, a past Chair of the UK Crime Writers Association, and the founder of Murder Squad. Under her own name she has published nine psychological suspense and police procedural novels. A Short Story Dagger winner, she has also been shortlisted for the First Blood critics’ award for crime fiction and the CWA Dagger in the Library. Helen Pepper is a Senior University Lecturer in Policing. She has been an analyst, Forensic Scientist, CSI, Crime Scene Manager and police trainer, and has co-authored, as well as contributed to, professional policing texts. She was a long-serving CWA Non-Fiction Dagger judge and has worked as forensic consultant on several hit television series, including Vera, Shetland, and Bancroft. Visit www.ashley-dyer.com for news, events, book reviews, and occasional vlogs on writing and forensics. (We love chatting with readers, so don't be shy! You can find links to our Facebook, BookBub and Twitter accounts from our website.)