The Girl in the Painting

About Steve Robinson

Steve Robinson is a London-based crime writer. He was sixteen when his first magazine article was published and he's been writing ever since. A keen interest in family history inspired his first million-copy bestselling series, the Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mysteries, and with The Penmaker's Wife and The Secret Wife he is now expanding his writing to historical crime, another area he is passionate about.

The idea for his Jefferson Tayte series came to him in 2007, on his return from a trip to Cornwall, where the first book is set. In the five years that followed, he wrote the first three books in the series, all the while trying to find a publisher for them. In 2012 he published the books via Kindle Direct Publishing, and following their success, eighteen months later he signed a four-book deal with Amazon Publishing. The books were released in March 2014 under the Thomas & Mercer mystery and thriller imprint, and since then a further three books in the series have been published, taking the total to seven.

In December 2019 his first non-Jefferson Tayte book, The Penmaker's Wife, was released. It was chosen as an Editor's Choice book, and was nominated for the 2020 Crime Writer's Association Historical Dagger award, and the 2020 Costa Coffee book award in the Best Novel category.