Mel Wallis de Vries

Publisher: De Fontein 

Mel Wallis de Vries’ books are hugely popular and always rank high on bestseller lists. Her stories are fluent, realistic, and always exciting until the very last page. She has won numerous awards, including the Best Women’s Thriller prize, Best Crimezone YA Thriller Award and various Hebban awards. Moreover, she has won the Young Jury Award seven times between 2012 and 2019. In 2019, Mel chose to stop submitting her books for the award and to become the first Young Jury Ambassador ever. Her books have been adapted for theatre and film, always rank high on bestseller lists and are also succesful in translation in Germany and Hungary.