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Mason Cross was born in Glasgow in 1979. He studied English at the University of Stirling and has worked variously as a tax officer, events coordinator, project manager and pizza delivery boy. He has written a number of short stories which have been published in
Ellery Queen,
Scribble and
First Edition.
His story 'A Living', was shortlisted for the Quick Reads 'Get Britain Reading' Award. His first novel,
The Killing Season was longlisted for the 2015 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and his second,
The Samaritan was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club in Spring 2016. The third book in the series,
The Time to Kill was released in 2016 and published in the US under the title
Winterlong in 2017, followed by
Don't Look For Me and
Presumed Dead. He lives near Glasgow with his wife and three children.
You can find him on
Twitter,
Facebook and
Instagram to varying extents (usually when he's distracting himself from doing the actual writing), and he also has a
blog.
You can find out more about Mason Cross and the Carter Blake series by visiting his
website.