Chasing the Dark

Ben Machell has worked for the Times in London since 2005, and is a principal feature writer, interviewer, and columnist for the award-winning Times Magazine. His debut book, The Unusual Suspect, was widely acclaimed and shortlisted for the Golden Dagger at the 2022 Crime Writers' Association Awards. The drama rights to The Unusual Suspect have been acquired by Pathé UK, who are set to produce that story into a major TV series. "A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the edges of the rational. An engrossing, entertaining and distinctly unsettling read."-Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet "Shiversomely eerie,…so impressive in its research and remarkable in all it uncovers."-Tom Holland, author of Rubicon and Dominion