British crime novelist Mo Hayder, whose dark, shocking thrillers won her the title of “queen of fear”, has died at the age of 59 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease in December. Hayder was the pen name for Clare Dunkel. She won the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library award for an outstanding body of work in 2011. Her fellow authors praised her as a writer who pushed the limits of the crime genre with her terrifying thrillers. “Crime/horror mash-up is quite an established thing now, but there were very few people working in that genre when Mo came along.

Source: The Guardian July 29, 2021 12:30 UTC