Jan Turk PetrieAs a writer, Jan is always keen to challenge herself. Her first published novels - the three volumes that make up The Eldísvík Trilogy - are Nordic noir thrillers set fifty years in the future in a Scandinavian city where the rule of law comes under hreat from the criminal cartels that control the badlands surrounding it. Her fourth novel - 'Too Many Heroes' - is, by contrast, a period romantic thriller set in the early 1950s - a story of an illicit love affair that angers the mobsters controlling London's East End. Jan's fifth novel: 'Towards the Vanishing Point' is also set primarily in the 1950s and depicts an enduring friendship between two women that is put to the test when one of them falls under the spell of a sinister charmer. 'The Truth in a Lie', Jan's latest novel and the first with a contemporary setting. Read More Read Less