Anna Smith is an award winning journalist, formerly chief reporter of the Daily Record in Scotland and now a columnist with the Scottish News of the Wolrd.
She divides her time between her homes in Scotland and the west of Ireland.
Her debut novel, Spit Against The Wind, launched her career to much critical acclaim, and one leading newspaper described Smith as ‘a powerful new voice in Scottish fiction.’

Her style of writing as a journalist won her many awards and she has transferred that gritty, colourful way of writing to fiction, bringing alive the characters in her writing.

She has covered wars across the world as well as major investigations and news stories. The Dead Won't Sleep is the first thriller in a series featuring journalist Rosie Gilmour.