Denise Yoko Berndt

Denise Yoko Berndt got her first library card aged two and wrote her first short story aged eight. The plot? A female bank director robs her own bank. It took a while until she released her first novel (The Poriomaniacs - Dead in Dornbirn in 2006) but she stuck to a life of crime (in books that is!).

Four cozy crime novels featuring all-girl rock band The Poriomaniacs as reluctant sleuths were followed by three thrillers set in the quaint German university town of Tubingen, one stand-alone thriller based on the ancient myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and since 2020 several volumes of her London thriller series with ex-DCI Amber Fearns as the protagonist.

When she’s not busy travelling the world, researching new book ideas, her favourite place to be is London.