Matt Hilton

Matt Hilton quit his career as a police officer with Cumbria Constabulary to pursue his love of writing tight, cinematic American-style thrillers. He is the author of the high-octane Joe Hunter thriller series, including his most recent novel 'The Lawless Kind' - Joe Hunter 9 - published in January 2014 by Hodder and Stoughton. His first book, 'Dead Men's Dust', was shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers' Debut Book of 2009 Award, and was a Sunday Times bestseller, also being named as a 'thriller of the year 2009' by The Daily Telegraph. Dead Men's Dust was also a top ten Kindle bestseller in 2013. The Joe Hunter series is widely published by Hodder and Stoughton (UK), and books 1 - 6 by William Morrow and Company (USA), and have been translated into German, Italian, Romanian and Bulgarian.As well as the Joe Hunter series, Matt has been published in a number of anthologies and collections, and has published three previous novels in the horror genre, namely 'Dominion', 'Darkest Hour' and a young adult novel called 'Mark Darrow and the Stealer of Souls'. Matt also collected and edited both 'ACTION: Pulse Pounding Tales Volumes 1 and 2'.Matt is a high-ranking martial artist and has been a detective and private security specialist, all of which lend an authenticity to the action scenes in his books. He is also very interested in the paranormal and has accompanied Ghost-North-east and Near Dark Paranormal Investigations on a number of their investigations.Matt is currently working on the next Joe Hunter novel, as well as a stand-alone supernatural novel.www.matthiltonbooks.com