Jean-Luc Bannalec lives in Germany and the southerly region of the French department of Finistere. In 2016 he was given the award Mecene de Bretagne. Since 2018 he has been an honorary member of the Academie Litteraire de Bretagne. He is also the author of Death in Brittany, Murder on Brittany Shores, The Fleur de Sel Murders, The Missing Corpse, The Killing Tide, The Granite Coast Murders, and The King Arthur Case.