Paul Mann is a prolific author from the United Kingdom, known for his award-winning mystery, thriller, and suspense novels. He has written numerous books, including his bestselling novel, "Season of the Monsoon," which features his well-known Anglo-Indian detective character, George Sansi. The series featuring George Sansi includes a few more books, and Mann has also penned another popular novel series, the Colin Lynch series, which features an international espionage agent named Colin Lynch.
Mann was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, UK, in 1947 and spent most of his childhood in the town of Bedlington, Northumberland, during the heyday of coal mining in the 1950s. He studied at the Westbridge County School and began his career in journalism as an office boy at The Evening Chronicle in Newcastle at the age of 16. His career as a magazine writer and newspaper reporter allowed him to travel to various places worldwide, including London, New York, Sydney, and Montreal, where he wrote for several national magazines. Later, he became one of the founding writers of the Australian Geographic.
Mann grew up in the northeast of England during the 1950s when small fortunes could be made by the man with the biggest leek. Inspired by Ernest Hemingway, Mann became a manly man reporter and a world-class drinker to accumulate experiences necessary for authorship. He writes in various genres, including techno-thrillers, mystery, and magic realism. His George Sansi series features an anglo-Indian bastard detective tackling monstrous crimes in Mumbai, while his 'magic realism' book, 'The Witch's Code,' is about witch detective Kate Asher with Salem P.D.
Mann currently resides in Maine and is happily married with three grown-up daughters. He shifted to America in 1990 and began writing book reviews for The New York Times. He also worked with the Boston and Backpaper magazines. Mann has founded, edited, and published The York Independent, a weekly paper from York, Maine. Mann started his career as an office boy at The Evening Chronicle in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and worked his way up to being a reporter on newspapers and magazines, moving between the U.K., Canada, the U.S., and Australia, including being a founder writer of Australian Geographic. He continues to write and publish books, with his latest works being the 'Splatter Trilogy,' which includes 'Dirty Hit' and 'Sweet Kill.'