Michéle Rowe is a South African scriptwriter who works primarily as a head writer and story originator for television and film. She was a founder member of Free Film Makers, an anti-apartheid grouping of film-makers, directors and actors who created acclaimed independent documentaries and dramas. What Hidden Lies, her first crime novel, and winner of the 2011 Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award hit South African shelves in 2013. Hour of Darkness, her seond novel, was published in 2015.