Matt Blake

Matt Blake is an award-winning journalist who has written for the Guardian , Daily Telegraph , Grazia , Esquire , and Men's Health , and is a former crime reporter for the Daily Mirror and Independent . During his journalism career, he has covered everything from gang murder and police corruption to terrorism and serial killing - reporting from crime scenes, doorsteps, and courtrooms on some of Britain's most high-profile criminal cases. He once unknowingly interviewed a murderer in his own...See more

Matt Blake is an award-winning journalist who has written for the Guardian , Daily Telegraph , Grazia , Esquire , and Men's Health , and is a former crime reporter for the Daily Mirror and Independent . During his journalism career, he has covered everything from gang murder and police corruption to terrorism and serial killing - reporting from crime scenes, doorsteps, and courtrooms on some of Britain's most high-profile criminal cases. He once unknowingly interviewed a murderer in his own front room. His story House of Horror , which appeared in the Guardian and formed the basis of Hearth of Darkness, proved an international success, garnering more than half a million reads in its first week of publication alone. Hearth of Darkness is his first book. See less