Simon McCleave

Simon McCleave is a million-selling crime novelist who lives in North Wales with his wife and two children.

Before he was an author, Simon worked as a script editor at the BBC and a producer at Channel 4 before working as a story analyst in Los Angeles. He then became a script writer, writing on series such as <i>Silent Witness<i/>, <i>The Bill</i>, <i>EastEnders</i> and many more. His Channel 4 film <i>Out of the Game</i> was critically acclaimed and described as ‘an unflinching portrayal of male friendship’ by <i>Time Out</i>.

His first book, <i>The Snowdonia Killings</i>, was released in January 2020 and soon became an Amazon Bestseller, reaching No 1 in the UK Chart and selling over 350,000 copies. His twelve subsequent novels in the DI Ruth Hunter Snowdonia Series have all ranked in the Amazon Top20, with most of them hitting the top of the digital charts. He has sold 1.5 million books to date.

<i>The Dark Tide</i>, Simon’s first book in an Anglesey based crime series for publishing giant Harper Collins (Avon), was a major hit in 2022. Reaching Amazon’s UK top ten, it became the highest selling Waterstone’s Welsh Book of the Month ever. <i>In Too Deep</i>, the second book on the series was released in January 2023. <i>Blood on the Shore</i> is the third book in the Anglesey series.

The Snowdonia based DI Ruth Hunter books are now set to be filmed as a major new television series, with shooting to begin in North Wales in 2024.

www.simonmccleave.com