Saskia Noort, 38, is a free-lance journalist and she writes regular features for, among others, the Dutch editions of Marie Claire and Playboy. Her first thriller, Back to the Coast, was published in 2003 and has sold over 150,000 copies in the Netherlands. The Dinner Club followed in 2004 and, with over 300,000 sold. Laura Vroomen is a well known translator from the Dutch and lives in London.