S.P. Moss

Flying and travel are in S.P. Moss's blood - she visited four of the world's continents before starting school. She read avidly and wrote determinedly in between plotting to become a spy and building brother-proof camps.

She studied Psychology at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking part in some interesting experiments in parapsychology as well as playing trumpet in a Big Band.

A chance meeting in an Austrian ski hut resulted in more travel - this time to Germany, where she now lives in a small town outside Frankfurt with her husband and son.

She still makes use of her trumpet-playing, spying and camp-building skills in her busy life as an author, mother and freelance marketing consultant.

The Bother in Burmeon was her first published novel. The derring-do continued in the sprequel, Trouble in Teutonia, which was shortlisted for the International Rubery Award in 2015. The Al-Eden Emergency, set in 1966, brings yet more danger and dastardly deeds.