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Roger Jon Ellory was born in Birmingham, England in 1965.

Roger began writing his first novel in 1987 and did not stop writing until July 1993. During this time he completed twenty-two novels, most of them in longhand, and accumulated several hundred rejection letters from different publishers. He did not start writing again until 2001. Over the next six months he wrote three books, the second of which, Candlemoth, was published in 2003 and subsequently translated into German, Dutch and Italian. It was also shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Steel Dagger for Best Thriller 2003.

A second book, Ghostheart, was released in 2004 and A Quiet Vendetta in 2005. City of Lies (2006) was also nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the year. A Quiet Belief in Angels (2007) was selected by the UK’s Richard and Judy Book Club and translated into more than twenty languages. It was shortlisted for the Barry Award for Best British Crime Fiction Novel of 2008, the 813 Trophy, the Quebec Booksellers’ Prize and the Europeen Du Point Award, and was the winner of the Inaugural Prix Roman Noir Nouvel Observateur in France.

His latest novel, The Anniversary Man, was published in September 2009.