First born - will dean

Dean, Will: - Will Dean, author of The Last Thing to Burn which was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, grew up in the East Midlands of the United Kingdom.

After studying law at the London School of Economics and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden where he built a wooden house in a vast forest, and its from this base that he compulsively reads and writes.

His debut novel, Dark Pines , was selected for Zoe Balls book club on ITV, shortlisted for the National Book Award (UK), The Guardian s Not the Booker prize, and was named a Telegraph book of the year.