British · b. 1953
Luke Jennings is a British journalist, critic and novelist. He worked for many years as a writer and editor for British newspapers and magazines, and he was dance critic for The Observer. His non-fiction includes Blood Knots, a memoir about fishing, family and friendship, which won the Telegraph Sports Book of the Year award. He also wrote Atlantic, a history of the ocean. He is best known for the Villanelle novels, a series of thrillers about a psychopathic assassin and the MI6 officer who hunts her. The first book began as a serialized ebook called Codename Villanelle in 2014. The series was adapted by Phoebe Waller-Bridge into the BBC America drama Killing Eve, starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, which first aired in 2018. Die for Me is the third novel in the series.