Nigel Cubbage was born in 1960 in Solihull. He went to school in Coventry and graduated from Wolverhampton in 1982. He has worked all his life in television, joining Central TV and ITN before moving to BBC Scotland and then the independent sector. The Legend of the Black Monk is his second book, following Voice in the Mist, and once again follows the adventures of teenage detective heroine Rebecca McOwan, who first entered the author’s thoughts on an island in the Outer Hebrides one sleepy summer’s evening.

Nigel lives in Surrey with his wife and three young children.