Irma Venter is a journalist at a media company in Johannesburg.

Her first crime thriller, Skoenlapper, published by Human & Rousseau in June 2012, recently won the prize for best thriller in Afrikaans from the ATKV. The sequel, Skrapnel, was published in July 2013.

Venter has also received several awards for her media work, including three Pica awards for trade and industry writer of the year.

She loves new places, airports, deserts, Labradors, South African products, people who still take time to make food, spring and autumn, good whiskey, good coffee and good chocolate, not necessarily in that order.