Dan Fesperman is a reporter for the Baltimore Sun and worked in its Berlin bureau during the years of the civil war in former Yugoslavia, as well as in Afghanistan during the recent conflict.
His first novel, Lie in the Dark, won the CWA John Creasey Award for Best First Crime Novel in 1999. His second, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows, won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller in 2003. Both books are also published by Black Swan.