Roberta Kray

Roberta Kray (born 1959) is an English author best known for her crime fiction and thriller novels, many of which are set within London's criminal underworld. Before launching her career as a novelist, Kray gained public prominence as the wife of Reggie Kray, one of the UK's most notorious East End gangsters, whom she married in 1997 while he was serving a life sentence. Following his death in 2000, she channeled her deep familiarity with the atmosphere and culture of the British underworld into writing, debuting with her first novel, The Lost, in 2006.