Michael Ridpath is an English author of
thrillers involving the world of high finance. He was born in
Devon
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in 1961 and grew up in
Yorkshire
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. He was educated at
Millfield School and
Merton College, Oxford
Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 126 ...
, and spent eight years working as a bond trader at an international bank in the
City of London
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. His past employers include Saudi International Bank and
Apax Partners.
Ridpath lives in north London with three children and his wife,
Barbara Ridpath. His latest work is the ''Fire & Ice'' series about an Icelandic detective called Magnus Jonson.
Bibliography
Financial thrillers
* ''Free to Trade'' (1995)
* ''Trading Reality'' (1996)
* ''The Marketmaker'' (1998)
* ''Final Venture'' (2000)
* ''The Predator'' (2001)
* ''Fatal Error'' (2003)
Alex Calder
* ''On The Edge'' (2005)
* ''See No Evil'' (2006)
Magnus Iceland Mysteries (Fire and Ice)
* ''Where The Shadows Lie'' (Corvus, June 2010)
* ''66° North'' (Corvus, May 2011)
* ''Edge of Nowhere'' (Corvus, December 2011)
* ''Meltwater'' (June 2012)
* ''Sea of Stone'' (May 2014)
* ''The Polar Bear Killing'' (2015)
* ''The Super Recogniser of Vik'' (2016)
* ''The Wanderer'' (September 2018)
* ''Death in Dalvik'' (2022)
Conrad de Lancey – pre-WWII & WWII spy novels
* ''Traitor's Gate'' (Head of Zeus, June 2013)
* ''Shadows of War'' (Head of Zeus, January 2015)
Stand-alone novels
* ''Amnesia'' (Corvus, May 2017)
* ''Launch Code'' (Corvus, 2019)
Corvus page for Launch-code
Short stories
* "Partnership Track" (2005), published in ''The Detection Collection'', edited by Simon Brett
Simon Anthony Lee Brett Order of the British Empire, OBE Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (born 28 October 1945 in Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a British author of detective fiction, a playwright, and a producer-writer for ...
.
References
External links
Michael Ridpath's website
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1961 births
Living people
English writers
People educated at Millfield
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford