After being flung into the culinary limelight as a semi-finalist on Masterchef, Orlando Murrin edited BBC Good Food for six years and founded Olive magazine; then he switched track to become a chef-hotelier in SW France and Somerset.
He has written six cookbooks and is President of the Guild of Food Writers. An ever-popular guest on TV and radio, he presents the Good Food Podcast with Tom Kerridge.
From his grandfather, a Met detective who rose to become a crack MI5 interrogator, he inherited a fascination with crime and mystery. He lives in domestic bliss in Exeter, Devon, and Knife Skills For Beginners is his debut novel, first in the chef Paul Delamare series, published by Transworld in February 2024.