Bernard Minier was born in Béziers on 26 August 1960. He grew up in Montréjeau at the foot of the Pyrénées. He studied in Tarbes and Toulouse and now lives in l’Essonne in the Ile de France.
Minier is the author of Iced, soon to be adapted into a television mini-series, The Circle, Don’t Turn out the Light and A Hell of a Story.
The Sunday Times wrote of Minier in the Crime Book of the Month section: ‘Over the past few years, France has produced some of Europe’s most striking and original crime novelists. Bernard Minier is up there with the best’.