Howard Linskey

Howard Linskey is an acclaimed author of crime fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction. His first book The Drop (No Exit, 2011) was one of the Times newspaper’s top five thrillers of the year and his second, The Damage (No Exit, 2012), a Times top 12 summer read. His nineteen books have been published by seven different UK publishers, including Penguin Random House, Orion, No Exit, Harlequin, Mirror Books, Badger Books and The History Press. He is published in Germany, the Czech Republic, Romania, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. Howard’s crime fiction is set in his native north-east and his historical novels set in World War Two. They include the true story of the assassination of Nazi General, Reinhard Heydrich. A former journalist, Howard has written Surviving Hell (Mirror Books, 2020), about military veteran Nick Dunn’s years being wrongfully held in a foreign prison and The Bodyguard (Orion, 2022) the memoir of Lee Sansum, Princess Diana’s former bodyguard. 

Howard has mentored authors on the City University (MA) in Creative Crime Writing and supports a variety of writing groups and aspiring author initiatives, including Barking and Dagenham council’s ‘Pen to Print’ scheme. Howard has given talks about writing at festivals, in libraries and prisons. He has also written two books for children with low reading ages, classed as reluctant readers. Howard was the subject expert on an episode of ITV/CBS TV series Written in Blood on the Moors Murderers. Howard lives in Herts with his wife, Alison and daughter, Erin.