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name: Holly Watt
about: Hello!My name is Holly WattMy first novel - To The Lions - won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for the best thriller of the year in 2019. In 2020, and my second book, The Dead Line, was named one of the Thrillers of the Year by The Times and the FT. The Casey Benedict series continues with The Hunt and The Kill, which will be published in July 2021. Before writing novels, I was an investigative journalist. I started at the Sunday Times (long, complicated story), before moving to the Daily Telegraph. During six years at the Telegraph, I was the Whitehall Editor and jointly ran the investigations team. I then moved to work on the Guardian's investigations team (yes, a bit of a leap politically...).I worked on stories including MPs’ Expenses Hello!My name is Holly WattMy first novel - To The Lions - won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for the best thriller of the year in 2019. In 2020, and my second book, The Dead Line, was named one of the Thrillers of the Year by The Times and the FT. The Casey Benedict series continues with The Hunt and The Kill, which will be published in July 2021. Before writing novels, I was an investigative journalist. I started at the Sunday Times (long, complicated story), before moving to the Daily Telegraph. During six years at the Telegraph, I was the Whitehall Editor and jointly ran the investigations team. I then moved to work on the Guardian's investigations team (yes, a bit of a leap politically...).I worked on stories including MPs’ Expenses at the Telegraph and the Panama Papers at the Guardian and I also did lots of undercover work.I've reported from countries all around the world, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Libya, Jordan and Lebanon (some of which appear in my books). Excitingly, the Casey Benedict series has been optioned by the producer of The Night Manager and The Undoing, which recently starred Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. I hope you enjoy my books. ...more