Imran Mahmood is a practicing barrister with thirty years’ experience fighting cases in courtrooms across the country. His previous novels have been highly critically acclaimed: You Don’t Know Me was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice, Goldsboro Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the Glass Bell Award; both this and I Know What I Saw were longlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold Dagger. You Don’t Know Me was also made into a hugely successful BBC1 adaptation in association with Netflix. When not in court or writing novels or screenplays he can sometimes be found on the Red Hot Chilli Writers’ podcast as one of their regular contributors. He hails from Liverpool but now lives in London with his wife and daughters. @imranmahmood777
The very definition of a compulsive page-turner -- Chris Whitaker Mahmood just keeps getting better and better -- Simon Lelic Imran is probably the most exciting crime fiction author in the UK right now and All I Said Was True is further proof of that. The dual narrative is exhilarating, the plot complex and layered, the writing is perfect and the narrator's voice is somehow both unreliable and trustworthy. Superb stuff -- M. W. Craven A suspenseful and intriguing thriller, layered with authenticity and told with real poise -- Victoria Selman Wonderfully twisty and kept me guessing all the way to a really satisfying denouement -- Ajay Chowdhury This novel haunted me with its lyrical lies -- Jane Corry