For the last fifteen years Mark Pearson has worked as a full-time television scriptwriter on a variety of shows for the BBC and ITV, including Doctors, Holby City and The Bill. He lives in Norfolk. HARD EVIDENCE is the first novel in the best selling Jack Delaney series followed last year by BLOOD WORK, the third DEATH ROW will be published by Arrow in July 2010. Mark has also just signed a deal to write a novel with James Patterson, the biggest selling thriller writer in the world, in his best selling PRIVATE series to be published next spring and with the fourth in the Jack Delaney series to follow next summer.