Bryony Rheam is a Zimbabwean who lives in the second city of Bulawayo with her partner and two daughters. She has had short stories published in many anthologies and her first novel This September Sun won critical acclaim and topped the UK Amazon chart. It was chosen as the Best First Book at the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards and selected as a set text for 'A' level Literature in English in Zimbabwe. Bryony was one of the five Africans chosen for a Morland scholarship in 2018. An Agatha Christie enthusiast, she is a winner of the international Write Your Own Christie competition. Rheam’s detective story, ALL COME TO DUST, was chosen as one of ten top African thrillers in Publishers Weekly, who described it as a “stunning crime debut.”