Jacob Ross was born in Grenada and now lives in Britain. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he is the author of two acclaimed collections of short stories, A Way to Catch the Dust and Song for Simone and Tell No-One About This – nominated by The 2018 Bocas Literary Festival as one of the three best works of Caribbean fiction published in 2017. His first novel, Pynter Bender, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Regional Prize, and his debut crime novel, The Bone Readers won the inaugural Jhalak Prize. His newest crime novel Black Rain Falling was published in March 2020.

‘Jacob Ross is a truly amazing writer. Black Rain Falling is an outstanding novel’ – Bernardine Evaristo, Winner of the Booker Prize