Joint-winner (with Arne Dahl) of Europe's largest crime fiction prize the Ripper Award 2018/19 he has also won the Raymond Chandler Society's Marlowe Award and has been short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger, CWA Dagger in the Library and Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year awards. He is
also the author of several stand-alone novels including Stone Bruises and Where There's Smoke. Simon Beckett lives in Sheffield.