Beverley Jones is a former journalist and police press officer, now a novelist and general book obsessive.
Born in a small village in the South Wales valleys, she started her journalism career with Trinity Mirror newspapers, writing stories for The Rhondda Leader and The Western Mail, before becoming a broadcast journalist with BBC Wales Today TV, based in Cardiff.
Later, Bev worked as a press officer for South Wales Police, dealing with the media and participating in criminal investigations, security operations, emergency planning and counter terrorism.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, she channels these experiences of ‘true crime,’ and her insight into the murkier side of human nature, into her dark, psychological thrillers.
Her novels Where She Went, Halfway and Wilderness, are published by Little Brown under the name BE Jones. Wilderness, has recently been turned into a six-part TV drama for Amazon Prime by Firebird Pictures, London, starring Jenna Coleman. Her current novel, The Beach House (released as Beverley Jones) was an Evening Standard 2022 thriller of the summer.
Bev is also a member of Crime Cymru, the Welsh crime writing collective, and the Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Festival planning team, helping to organise Wales’s international online and live crime fiction festival Gwyl Crime Cymru.
