Mark McGinn lives with his family in Christchurch, New Zealand. When he's not writing crime novels, he's enjoying sport, reading other crime writers and, with U2 live in his ear, trying to minimise the excesses of red wine and chocolate on an exercycle that looks like a dark age instrument of torture. Now writing his fourth novel, he has previously written two Sasha Stace legal thrillers and a mystery. A short story, Perfect Cover, has been published by Fairfax Media.

During a lengthy career in the NZ court system, Mark had the privledge of seeing some of the finest lawyers and judges in action in many notable criminal jury trials. That experience and his subsequent background in psychological assessment has enriched and driven his crime writing.