Kate London'

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Kate London

About the author

Kate is the daughter of an RAF sergeant and spent the first years of her life living on an airforce base in Germany. She spent the rest of her childhood in Stoke on Trent, the setting for her latest series. Kate has a degree in history from Cambridge University. After working in theatre as an actor, writer and director she ran away from the circus to join the Metropolitan Police Service. She finished her service working as a detective on the Met’s homicide command but in 2014 resigned to focus on her writing. In 2019 her story, “We Do Not Deal In Guilt or Blame” was runner up in Harper Bazaar’s 2019 short story competition. She is the author of four books in her Tower series, which have been adapted and broadcast by ITV.  

Also by Kate London

The Tower Series:
Post Mortem
Death Message
Gallowstree Lane
The Misper

Praise for The Tower Series:

‘An absorbing debut … a complex novel that offers rare insights’ Sunday Times

‘Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing’ Tony Parsons

As a writer I love working with genre: it lets me approach difficult subjects and explore them unflinchingly, and then, through the agency of our heroes, allows me to imagine a world fighting to put itself back together again.

Kate London