Jude O'Reilly is the author of two memoirs, three action adventure thrillers, and two crime thrillers. The crime thrillers are due this year and next. Before she became a writer she was a journalist with the Sunday Times, ITN's Channel 4 News and BBC 2's Newsnight. Her memoir, Wife in the North, was a UK and German bestseller and sold into ten countries. It was also a Radio 4 Book of the Week and serialised in the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. She's an award winning short story writer and lives in the North East of England with her husband, three kids and a poodle.