Jake Arnott’s novels have been published to critical and popular acclaim, earning the prestigious CWA Dagger in the Library award for crime fiction, and they have been made into two major television series by the BBC and ITV. Set in a brutal London underworld, his novels feature real-life villains and celebrities alongside their fictional counterparts, with bent coppers, cynical tabloid hacks and on the take politicians all mixed together. Fans include David Bowie, who called them “pure gangland bliss”. His latest novel, The Devil's Paintbrush, explores the dark side of Edwardian social classes and “the hidden ciphers that exclude the uninitiated”.