The Midnight Man: BY 2023 IAN FLEMING CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DAGGER LONGLISTED AUTHOR (The Clapham Trilogy Book 1)

Julie Anderson

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BIOGRAPHY
Julie Anderson is a CWA Dagger-listed crime fiction writer and author. Her latest book, Festival Days, is the third in the Clapham series, which began with The Midnight Man (Hobeck Books, April 2024) and continued with A Death in the Afternoon (Hobeck Books, 2025). All are available at good book shops and on Amazon and other online retailers. They are set post- WWII in south London.

Julie has also written a trio of Whitehall thrillers, the last of which, Opera (Claret Press) was long-listed for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2023. This is the third in a series of political thrillers featuring Cassandra Fortune. Plague, the first, was published in September 2020 and Oracle, the second in May 2021. Julie has also written a two book series of adventure stories set in southern Spain during the 13th century. The first of these, Reconquista, was long listed for Mslexia Children’s Novel, 2016. All books are available at Waterstones and Amazon.

Before becoming a crime fiction writer, she was a senior civil servant, working across a variety of departments and agencies, including the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Unlike her protagonists, however, she doesn’t know where (all) the bodies are buried. She writes crime fiction reviews for Time and Leisure Magazine and is a co-founder and Trustee of the Clapham Book Festival an annual celebration of books and reading in south London.

Born in Worcestershire Julie now lives in south London where her latest crime fiction series is set.