Martin Edwards is the 2020 recipient of the CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in UK crime writing. His latest book is The Life of Crime, a history of the genre, while his latest series of novels features Rachel Savernake and is set in the 1930s. He has received the CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded by UK librarians for his body of work. He is President of the Detection Club, consultant to the British Library's Crime Classics, and former Chair of the CWA. His contemporary whodunits include The Coffin Trail, first of eight Lake District Mysteries and shortlisted for the Theakston's Prize for best crime novel of the year; the most recent entry in the series is The Girl They All Forgot (in the UK, The Crooked Shore). The Arsenic Labyrinth was shortlisted for Lakeland Book of the Year. The Golden Age of Murder won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards, while The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books also won the Macavity and was nominated for four other awards. He has also received the CWA Short Story Dagger, the CWA Margery Allingham Prize, a CWA Red Herring, and the Poirot award "for his outstanding contribution to the crime genre". Howdunit, another award-winning book, is about 'crafting crime', which is the title of his online writing course.