Lauris Edmond is one of New Zealand's most distinguished poets. Her career has been extraordinarily compressed. Born in 1924, she did not publish her first collection in 1975. Since then, eleven major titles have appeared, plus "An Autobiography" in three volumes. Her Selected Poems won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1985.

Martin Edwards was born at Knutsford, Cheshire and educated in Northwich and at Balliol College, Oxford University, taking a first class honours degree in law. He trained as a solicitor in Leeds and moved to Liverpool on qualifying. A member of the Murder Squad collective of crime writers, Martin is Vice Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and in 2015 he was elected eighth President of the Detection Club.

Flambard Press published Martin Edwards' novel, Dancing for the Hangman in 2008.