Minette Walters is an internationally bestselling author with more than twenty-five million copies of her books sold worldwide. Her suspense has won the CWA John Creasey Dagger for best British debut crime novel, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best American crime novel of the year and two CWA Gold Daggers for best British crime novel of the year. She lives in Dorset with her husband and two children. The Last Hours is her first historical fiction.