Berna González Harbour writes noir novels, is the creator of police officer Comisaria Ruiz, and according to Paco Camarasa, one of the "latest nine" in Spanish noir crime. She was shortlisted for the Dashiell Hammett prize for The Tears of Claire Jones (Destino), and she won the Cantabria booksellers' prize and the 2019 Dashiell Hammett prize for The Dream of Reason, and is a member of various literary panels. She is also a journalist, a political analyst and a cultural collaborator. She is assistant director at El País, where she has been editor of Babelia and special envoy to several countries in conflict. She runs the book-reading programme ¿Qué estás leyendo? As well as working with the cultural magazine Zenda and as a regular contributor to the discussion programme Hora on Cadena Ser radio.