About the author

Martin O’Brien was educated at the Oratory School and Hertford College, Oxford. He was travel editor at British Vogue in the 1970s and has written for a number of international publications. After twenty-five years on the road Marseilles remains one of his favourite destinations. He is the author of five previous crime novels – Jacquot and the Waterman, Jacquot and the Angel, Jacquot and the Master, Jacquot and the Fifteen and Confession.