Bernard Knight

Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, became a Home Office Pathologist in 1965 and was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, in 1980. During his forty year career with the Home Office, he performed over 25,000 autopsies and was involved in many high-profile cases. He is the author of twelve novels, a biography and numerous popular and academic non-fiction books. [from the front matter, The Figure of Hate (2005)]

Also writes as the Medieval Murderers with Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Karen Maitland, Susanna Gregory, Philip Gooden and C.J. Sansom