A journalist of many years’ standing, Hilary Bonner is a former showbusiness editor of the Mail on Sunday, the Daily Mirror and the Sun, and has written several non-fiction books about showbusiness. The Cruelty of Morning, first published in 1995, was her first novel; her most recent crime novel, Death Comes First, was published in 2015, and others include Friends to Die For, while in all she has published eleven novels, five non-fiction books, two ghosted autobiographies, one ghosted biography, two companions to TV programmes, and a number of short stories. A former Chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association, she is now a full-time writer. She lives in Somerset.
