Martin Baldysz debuted with the novel Winter Crawings (Vintertrang) in 2013, and is also the author of the historical series Breaking Waves (Brenninger), with 16 books published so far. In 2022, his novel The Cairns was published to critical acclaim. Martin owns a farm in western Norway, where he lives with his author wife and two children. The Silence Beneath is the first book in his new historical crime series.
