The Christmas murder game, 2022: ECIP title page (Alexandra Benedict) galley (writer of novels, short stories and scripts; as A K Benedict, she published the critically acclaimed The Beauty of Murder, The Evidence of Ghosts and The Stone House; has also composed music for film, TV and radio; taught and ran the highly successful Crime Thrillers MA at City University, and now mentors, coaches and edits writers)

Email from publisher, received March 4, 2022 (confirms that the author's full name is Alexandra Katharine Benedict and her birthday is May 29, 1977)

The beauty of murder, 2013: t.p. (A.K. Benedict) jkt. flap (she read English at Cambridge and studied creative writing at Sussex. She now composes film and television soundtracks, as well as being a performing musician; this is her first novel)