Editing Michael Ridpath

{{Short description|British writer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{BLP sources|date=December 2009}}

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'''Michael Ridpath''' is an English author of [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]]s involving the world of high finance. He was born in [[Devon]] in 1961 and grew up in [[Yorkshire]]. He was educated at [[Millfield School]] and [[Merton College, Oxford]], and spent eight years working as a bond trader at an international bank in the [[City of London]]. His past employers include Saudi International Bank and [[Apax Partners]].<ref>[http://www.michaelridpath.com/about-the-author.html About the Author] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120905005429/http://www.michaelridpath.com/about-the-author.html |date=5 September 2012 }}</ref>

Ridpath lives in north London with three children and his wife, [[Barbara Ridpath]]. His latest work is the ''Fire & Ice'' series about an Icelandic detective called Magnus Jonson.

==Bibliography==

===Financial thrillers===
* ''Free to Trade'' (1995)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121107054638/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/21483225.html?dids=21483225:21483225&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+11,+1995&author=By+John+North&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=New+novels+display+uncanny+timing+Free+To+Trade+By+Michael+Ridpath+HarperCollins,+346+pages,+$30+The+Stonebreakers+By+Philip+Hook+General,+314+pages,+$29.95+Higher+Authority+By+Stephen+White+Penguin,+454+pages,+$29.99&pqatl=google New novels display uncanny timing]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121107054651/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22716297.html?dids=22716297:22716297&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+12,+1995&author=David+Ignatius&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Prowling+After+Profits+Three+new+thrillers+illustrate+the+dangers+of+dramatizing+the+lives+of+people+who+spend+their+lives+staring+at+he+Quotron+screen+BOMBARDIERS:+A+Novel+of+Business,+By+Po+Bronson+(Random+House:+$22%3B+336+pp.)+NEST+OF+VIPERS,+By+Linda+Davies+(Doubleday:+$23%3B+272+pp.)+FREE+TO+TRADE,+By+Michael+Ridpath+(HarperCollins:+$23%3B+352+pp.)&pqatl=google Prowling After Profits]</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120723175802/http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1995/b341329.arc.htm SATIRE ON THE STREET, SUSPENSE IN THE CITY]</ref>
* ''Trading Reality'' (1996)
* ''The Marketmaker'' (1998)
* ''Final Venture'' (2000)
* ''The Predator'' (2001)
* ''Fatal Error'' (2003)

====Alex Calder====
* ''On The Edge'' (2005)<ref>[https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv-entertainment-old/books/2005/04/08/crash-of-city-high-flyer-115875-15377487 CRASH OF CITY HIGH-FLYER]/  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110503050050/http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv-entertainment-old/books/2005/04/08/crash-of-city-high-flyer-115875-15377487/ |date=3 May 2011 }}</ref>
* ''See No Evil'' (2006)

===Magnus Iceland Mysteries (Fire and Ice)===
* ''Where The Shadows Lie'' (Corvus, June 2010)
* ''66° North'' (Corvus, May 2011)
* ''Edge of Nowhere'' (Corvus, December 2011)
* ''Meltwater'' (June 2012)
* ''Sea of Stone'' (May 2014)
* ''The Polar Bear Killing'' (2015)
* ''The Super Recogniser of Vik'' (2016)
* ''The Wanderer'' (September 2018)
* ''Death in Dalvik'' (2022)

===Conrad de Lancey – pre-WWII & WWII spy novels===
* ''Traitor's Gate'' (Head of Zeus, June 2013)
* ''Shadows of War'' (Head of Zeus, January 2015)

===Stand-alone novels===
* ''Amnesia'' (Corvus, May 2017)<ref>[http://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/amnesia/ Corvus page for Amnesia]/</ref>
* ''Launch Code'' (Corvus, 2019)
<ref>[http://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/launch-code/ Corvus page for Launch-code]/</ref>

=== Short stories ===

* "Partnership Track" (2005), published in ''The Detection Collection'', edited by [[Simon Brett]].

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.michaelridpath.com/ Michael Ridpath's website]

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