Chris Simms is a British author of crime novels. Born in 1969, Horsham, West Sussex, he graduated from Newcastle University then travelled round the world before moving to Manchester in 1994. Since then he?s worked as a freelance copywriter for advertising agencies throughout the city. The idea for his first novel, Outside the White Lines came to him one night when broken down on the hard shoulder of a motorway. His novel Savage Moon was shortlisted for the 2009 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award Staccato chapters alternate between viewpoints of The Searcher, The Hunter and The Killer - each character roaming the roads of Britain in pursuit of his own obsessive agenda. 

January 1st, 1969 in Horsham (Age 55)