Simon Kernick (born February 1967 in Slough, Buckinghamshire) is a British thriller/

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now living in Oxfordshire with his two daughters. Kernick attended

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, a comprehensive in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Whilst he was a student his jobs included fruit-picker and Christmas-tree uprooter. He graduated from

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in 1991 with a degree in

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. Kernick had a passion for crime fiction writing from a young age and produced many short stories during his time at polytechnic. After graduating Kernick joined MMT Computing in London in early 1992, where a relative was the Chairman and Managing Director. He left the company after four years in the hope of trying to secure a publishing deal. Despite interest from a number of publishers Kernick was unable to secure a deal, so he joined the sales force of the specialist IT and Business Consultancy Metaskil plc in

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, Berkshire in 1998 where he remained until he secured his first book deal '' The Business of Dying'' in September 2001. His novel ''

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'' was recommended on

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's Summer book club 2007. It was the 8th best-selling paperback, and the best-selling thriller in the UK in the same year.

Bibliography

*'' The Business of Dying'' (Dennis Milne 1) (2002) — ( Bantam, ) *''The Murder Exchange'' (2003) — (Bantam, ) *''The Crime Trade'' (Tina Boyd 1) (2004) — (Bantam, ) *''A Good Day To Die'' (Dennis Milne 2) (2005) — (Bantam, ) *''

(Tina Boyd 2, Mike Bolt 1) (2006) — (Bantam, ) *''Severed'' (Mike Bolt 2) (2007) — (Bantam, ) *''Deadline'' (Tina Boyd 3) (2008) *''Target'' (Tina Boyd 4, Mike Bolt 3) (2009) *''The Last 10 Seconds'' (Tina Boyd 5, Mike Bolt 4) (2010) *''The Payback'' (Dennis Milne 3, Tina Boyd 6) (2011) *''Siege''(Scope 1, plus Tina Boyd)'' (2012) *''Wrong Time, Wrong Place'' (2013, February) *''Ultimatum'' (Tina Boyd 7, Mike Bolt 5) (2013, June) *''Stay Alive'' (Mike Bolt 6, Scope 2) (2014) *''The Final Minute'' (Tina Boyd 8) (2015, January) *''The Witness'' (DI Ray Mason 1) (2016, January) *''The Bone Field'' (DI Ray Mason 2, Tina Boyd 9) (2017, January) *''The Hanged Man'' (DI Ray Mason 3, Tina Boyd 10) (2018, January) *''Dead Mans Gift & Other Stories'' (2018, July) *''We Can See You'' (2018, November) *''Die Alone'' (DI Ray Mason 4, Tina Boyd 11, Mike Bolt 7) (2019, November) *''Kill A Stranger'' (2020) *''Good Cop Bad Cop'' (2021)

References

External links

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bibliography on

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kernick, Simon English crime fiction writers Alumni of the University of Brighton People from Slough 1966 births Living people People from Oxfordshire 21st-century British novelists English male novelists