Kate London

Kate London is a former detective constable with the Metropolitan Police Service who is best known for her authentic and intricate crime novels.

After graduating from Cambridge University and training in theatre in Paris, she joined the Met in 2006, serving for eight years and concluding her career in the Homicide Command before resigning in 2014 to focus on crime writing.

Her debut novel, Post Mortem, came out in 2015. It weaves a gripping narrative around the deaths of a long-serving beat cop and a teenage girl who fall from a London tower block. The investigation, led by DPS officer Sarah Collins, delves deep into the dark heart of policing in London.

In 2021, Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbison decided to adapt Post Mortem into a three-part ITV series. The drama, entitled The Tower, follows the investigation by Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins into the case of a missing five-year-old and rookie police officer, Lizzie Griffiths, who disappear in the aftermath of a veteran uniformed office and teenage girl falling to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London.

The Misper, her latest novel released in 2023 by Atlantic Books, explores the impact of organized drug-running gangs on young lives. It revolves around Ryan Kennedy, a young man imprisoned for killing a police officer, and DI Sarah Collins, a detective who moved to the countryside for a quieter life but was dragged back into the chaos of London's criminal underworld.

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