Susan Moody is a highly accomplished British author, best known for her mystery and suspense novels. She has written under various pen names, including Susannah James and Susan Madison, with her works translated into several languages and achieving international success. Moody is particularly recognized for her Penny Wanawake series, which includes the Penny Black novel, as well as the Cassandra Swann series, which features titles such as Takeout Double, Grand Slam, King of Hearts, Doubled in Spades, Sacrifice Bid, and Dummy Hand.\n \n In addition to her fiction writing, Moody has also achieved remarkable success in the realm of best-selling novels. Her novel, Love Over Gold, which she wrote under a pseudonym, became a massive hit, selling nearly 200,000 copies worldwide and making the Sunday Times best-seller list. Similarly, her novel Misslethwaite, a sequel to Francis Hodgson Burnett's children's classic, The Secret Garden, was shortlisted for the annual award of the Romantic Novelists' Association and sold over 50,000 softback copies in the first month of publication.\n \n Moody's impressive career includes serving as a Creative Writing Tutor in Her Majesty's Prison, Bedford, and as a past Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association. She has also served as the President of the International Association of Crime Writers and is a long-standing member of the prestigious Detection Club. In 2000, she published The Colour of Hope, which was a phenomenal success, selling in 20 different countries. Her latest work, Loose Ends, was published in October 2012. Moody has spent time as a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Tasmania, has taught a course in the Crime Novel at the University of Copenhagen, and has led many courses and workshops in creative and crime writing in England, the US, and Australia. She is married to the Australian mathematician, Professor John Donaldson, and has homes in Tasmania, France, and south-east Kent.