Sam Blake, a pseudonym used by Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin, is the # 1 bestselling author of the Cat Connolly Garda police trilogy: the runaway bestseller Little Bones, In Deep Water and No Turning Back. She has also written a number of standalone thrillers including: Keep Your Eyes on Me (2020), The Dark Room (2021), Remember My Name (2022), The Mystery of Four (2023) and Three Little Birds (2024). Blake has also written thrillers for young adults, including Something’s About to Blow Up (2024). Across all her books Blake has been a multiple #1 Irish Times and #1 Eason bestselling author. She has been a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, and has stayed in the Irish Times top ten for over 40 weeks. Little Bones, The Dark Room and Remember My Name were each shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year while Something Terrible Happened Last Night (2023) was shortlisted for YA and Teen Novel of the Year and the Great Reads Awards. Blake is originally from St. Albans in Hertfordshire but has lived at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland for many years. Married to a retired member of An Garda Siochana she has two children, three cats and a fish. Blake runs the world’s only national writing resources website, as well as a publishing consultancy – she is Ireland’s leading literary scout.
Emer Heatley is a British and Irish actress. She studied at Trinity College Dublin before training at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her credits include Showtrial (World Productions/BBC), New George (Wild Something), and lead role Sheila Buckley, opposite Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes in ITV’s Stonehouse. She has just completed her debut short film Learners, which she wrote, produced and starred in alongside Roger Allam and Jack Gleeson.