Mike Ripley was born in 1952 and is the British author of the award-winning ‘Angel’ series of comedy thrillers as well as a critic and archaeologist.
Ripley is the author of the Angel series of comedy thrillers set mainly in Essex and London's East End.
[1][2] He was also a scriptwriter for the fifth series of the BBC comedy-drama Lovejoy (1986–94)[3] starring Ian McShane, and served as The Daily Telegraph's crime fiction critic for ten years.
[8] He is the series editor at Ostara Publishing, which specialises in reprinting classic mysteries and thrillers, and was co-editor of the three Fresh Blood anthologies promoting new British crime writing.
[11] It was not until 2012 that Ripley, with the approval and agreement of the Margery Allingham Society, took up the challenge of completing Carter's manuscript, which became Mr. Campion's Farewell.