Lara Thompson succeeding in besting hundred of competing applicants to win the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award competition with the manuscript of her first novel, One Night, New York. Lara is a lecturer in film at Middlesex University and she drew on her love of film noir, the photography of Berenice Abbot, and her own family history for this novel's backdrop. She lives in London.

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