'Ben McPherson drew me into the life of an ordinary family and gave me a ringside seat to watch the fracturing of those relationships beneath the weight of a murder investigation. Gripping from the get-go, A LINE OF BLOOD will have readers wondering what they might be capable of in the face of the terrible isolation of self within a family running off the rails' Tami Hoag #1 New York Times bestselling author of COLD COLD HEART 'It is both an extraordinary novel and thriller, and brilliantly written' Claire Kendal 'McPherson displays a rare skill for creating characters with depth in a world that is splintering around them' Daily Mail 'Ben McPherson has a very distinctive voice, and A LINE OF BLOOD is cleverly put together' Val McDermid 'A tense, touching, smartly written thriller with a very clever twist. McPherson is an impressive new voice' Tim Lott 'A hugely impressive debut, well written and psychologically acute; a devastating depiction of a family tearing itself apart' Paul Johnston

Ben McPherson is a television producer, director, and writer. He studied Modern Languages at King's College, Cambridge, and worked for many years in film and television production. From 1998 to 2007 he was a director and producer for the BBC. In 1998 Ben met the woman he would go on to marry at the Coach and Horses in Soho. Similarities to the characters in his novel, A Line of Blood, end there.