C J Carver is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels that have been published in the US and translated into several languages. Blood Junction won the CWA Debut Dagger and was short listed for the USA Barry Award for best crime fiction novel of the year. It was also selected as one of the best mysteries of the year by Publishers Weekly. Spare Me the Truth, the first in the Dan Forrester and Lucy Davies series, has been nominated for the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Best Crime Novel Award. C J lived in Australia for ten years before becoming a travel writer and long-distance rally driver. She now lives just outside Bath.