Martina Cole is the No.1 bestselling author of sixteen hugely successful novels and is highly acclaimed for her hard-hitting and haunting writing. Martina was the bestselling British female novelist of 2009 and the only fiction author to knock Dan Brown from his No. 1 slot on the Bestseller Lists last year for one week with her latest novel Hard Girls. The Business was the No.1 bestselling hardback adult fiction title of 2008 and went straight to No. 1 on the Sunday Times hardback bestseller list, as did Faces, Close and The Take. The Take won the British Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year and last year was adapted into a hugely successful ,critically acclaimed TV series for Sky One, which is being followed up later this year with another adaptation for Sky One of The Runaway. Total sales of Martina’s novels are now at nearly 10 million copies.
Martina has a son and daughter and lives in Kent.