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Cath Staincliffe is an award winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV's hit series Blue Murder. Cath's books have been shortlisted for the CWA Best First Novel award. She was joint winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2012. Letters To My Daughter's Killer was selected for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club on ITV3 in 2014. Cath also writes the Scott & Bailey books based on the popular ITV series. She lives with her family in Manchester.
A powerful, complex, gripping, perfectly paced book that packs a punch * The People * Complex and satisfying * Sunday Times * A sensitive and humane writer whose talent for characterisation ... is the fuel for real suspense * The Guardian * For her insistence on looking real life squarely in the face I would call Staincliffe the most grown-up writer in British crime fiction ... her novel is mercilessly exciting too * The Telegraph on The Silence Between Breaths * It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that -- Val McDermid Complex and satisfying * Sunday Times * Cath Staincliffe gets into the heads of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary. Her power is in the small detail that builds tension and forces us to care about the characters she's created. The Silence Between Breaths will haunt you. You will find yourself thinking: what would I have done in that situation? -- Ann Cleeves It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that -- Val McDermid Cath Staincliffe gets into the heads of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary -- Ann Cleeves An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout * Daily Telegraph * An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout * Daily Telegraph * Powerful, complex and utterly gripping * Sunday Mirror *
