Michelle Spring is an award-winning crime writer whose early novels have been described as ‘a cross between the private eye novel and the psychological thriller’. Every Breath You Take, Running for Shelter, Standing in the Shadows, Nights in White Satin, In the Midnight Hour and The Night Lawyer interweave the  exploration of contemporary issues with reflections on the long-term consequences of violence. In the Midnight Hour won an Arthur Ellis Award in 2002 for Best Novel of the Year from the Crime Writers of Canada, and other novels have been short-listed for major international awards.

Michelle was born and raised in Canada, but has lived in Cambridge, England, for most of her adult life. Her novels have been published in both Britain and America, and translated into a number of languages including French, German, Dutch, Finnish, and Russian.  

She spent more than two decades as a Lecturer and Professor of Social Science. Since becoming a (more or less) full-time novelist, she has continued to teach writing on weekend courses, at literary festivals, as a mentor for the Arts Council’s Escalator programme, and, for the past three years, as a Royal Literary Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge.

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