Lara Thompson is the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award–winning author of One Night, New York. A lecturer in film at Middlesex University, she drew on her love of fil...view moreLara Thompson is the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award–winning author of One Night, New York. A lecturer in film at Middlesex University, she drew on her love of film noir, the photography of Berenice Abbot, and her own family history for the novel's backdrop. She lives in London.view less