Washington Shadow

Aly Monroe was born and educated in England. Trained in linguistics, she has lived abroad - mostly in Spain - and speaks several languages. She is married and has three children. The first three books in the Peter Cotton series, Maze of Cadiz and Washington Shadow and Icelight (winner of the 2012 Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award) are also available from Hodder & Stoughton. You can find out more about Peter Cotton and Aly Monroe via her website, www.alymonroe.com or at www.hodder.co.uk, through her official facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/Monroe.Aly, and you can follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/monroe_aly.

'Monroe has a sure grasp of period detail and a remarkable gift for creating memorable characters' -- Mail on Sunday Praise for the first in the Cotton series, The Maze of Cadiz: 'A splendid debut mystery' -- The Times 'Clever and fascinating' -- Guardian 'An impressive novel with an extraordinary, dream-like atmosphere ... The next can't come too soon' -- Financial Times 'Cotton's investigating is clever and fascinating' -- Guardian 'Stands out from the current glut of period thrillers. Four stars' -- Mail on Sunday 'The deliberate anticlimax is a bold and broadly justified gesture of confidence in the power of her sense of time, place and character to charm the reader into a story told entirely on her own terms' -- Daily Telegraph 'Plenty of room for future development' -- TLS Praise for the first in the Cotton series, The Maze of Cadiz: 'A splendid debut mystery' -- The Times 'Clever and fascinating' -- Guardian 'An impressive novel with an extraordinary, dream-like atmosphere ... The next can't come too soon' -- Financial Times 'Cotton's investigating is clever and fascinating' -- Guardian 'The deliberate anticlimax is a bold and broadly justified gesture of confidence in the power of her sense of time, place and character to charm the reader into a story told entirely on her own terms' -- Daily Telegraph 'Plenty of room for future development' -- TLS