C. L. Taylor is the author of eleven adult thrillers and has had nine Sunday Times bestsellers during her stellar career. She is the recipient of four Nielsen Silver Bestseller Awards, and her books have been translated into 30 languages.

Fascinated by human behaviour, C. L. Taylor studied a BSc Psychology at Northumbria University. After she graduated she sat at an electric typewriter and tried - and failed - to write a novel about loneliness, inspired by what she'd learned. Thirty years - and many books - later, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from her alma mater in recognition of her literary career. But the themes of that abandoned first novel had never left her. She sat down at a laptop and told the story she'd always wanted to write.

She lives in Bristol with her partner and son.