www.philkurthausen.com Phil Kurthausen's novel 'The Silent Pool' won the Crime & Thriller section in the Harper Collins People's Novelist Competition broadcast on ITV in November 2011. It was later shortlisted for the Dundee International Literary Prize. The successful follow up in the Erasmus Jones series was 'Sudden Death' with the standalone psychological thriller 'Don't Let Me In' published in late 2018. He lives with his wife and a cat which, for legal reasons, bears no resemblance to the cat, 'Lil'Bitch' from 'Don't Let Me In'.