William Shaw writes the Eden Driscoll series set in Teignmouth, Devon, where he grew up.

William Shaw has been longlisted three times for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger, the Barry Award, The CWA Golden Dagger and the Golden Bullet.

The Sun calls him ‘a modern crime master’. Peter May has praised him as ‘a superb storyteller’, and The Times critic Marcel Berlins said: ‘William Shaw is a superb, flowing writer, both of police procedure and personal relations, and perhaps England’s most adept at using dialogue to propel his always intelligent stories.’

He also writes the DS Alex Cupidi series set in Kent and the Breen & Tozer series set in 1960s London.

Before becoming a crime writer, William Shaw was an award-winning music journalist and the author of several non-fiction books.