Mo Hayder has worked as a filmmaker, Tokyo nightclub hostess, and English language teacher in Asia. She is also the author of
Birdman;
The Treatment;
The Devil of Nanking, winner of the
Elle Magazine crime fiction prize;
Pig Island, shortlisted for the Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel;
Ritual, shortlisted both for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award and for the coveted Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award;
Skin; and
Gone; as well as the winner of the 2011 Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library award for outstanding body of work. She lives in England.