Christine Joanna HartChristine Joanna Hart is a Sunday Times best-selling author and ex News of the World investigative journalist from 1993 – for over a decade moving on to their sister paper The Sun until 2009.

Hart began her career in the ex MI6 spy trade, working as an operative for  elite organisations; Ciex Ltd (Michael Oatley’s Company X) KCS in Knightsbridge and Argen (ex Special Branch of Internal Security for S. Africa.) She has investigative experience with ex MI6 agencies KCS, Company X, Carrattu, Kroll and Argen, the latter overseeing De Beers diamonds account. She is currently a consultant investigator for ex MI6 officer, Stuart Poole-Robb at KCS in Knightsbridge, who works for the Russian and Malaysian governments and blue chip clients. Hart is an OSINT/HUMINT specialist. Hart has had her by-line on in depth investigations on terrorism and crime in the Focus part of The Sunday Times, The Times and The Mail on Sunday. A number of her assignments have been comparatively dangerous, including working undercover and a major investigation entitled, ‘Inside the Real IRA.’

Hart has written a number of serious non-fiction books, one of which one was first commissioned by The Guardian and entitled In For The Kill by C J Hart. Her first published book Searching For Daddy (Hodder and Stoughton) reached the Sunday Times bestseller list at 15 and sold over 100,000 copies, it was translated into Punjabi. Christine Joanna Hart, born 16th November, is an author and investigative journalist who has contributed to a variety of publications including News of the World, Sunday Mirror, The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and Sunday Express.

She often publishes crime stories under several different bylines. She has appeared on Sky and BBC as a crime pundit and reporter. She worked at the News of The World from 1995 to 2000 and for five years was the newspaper’s sole investigator. Hart also worked full time for The Sunday Mirror and The Daily Mail. She was taken under the wing of editor Liam Clarke at The Sunday Times and worked for him for a year in Eire enjoying many by lines and joint by lines on Focus pieces. Hart has covered stories including drug dealing in Britain, Real IRA in Belfast, child slavery in India and Pakistan. She currently lives in London with her 12 year old son. Her books have been published by Mainstream Publishing and Hodder and Stoughton.

She has interviewed Moors Murderer Ian Brady and USA, Kenneth Bianchi the Hillside Strangler – she has lectured on inside the minds of serial killers and has appeared as a guest on BBC World Service and ITN and Ch 5 and Ch 4 news re the nature of evil. She has her own radio show, Queen of Hart Perspective for USA’s Revolution Radio.

 Her new book, Dirty Little Butterflies is a novel based on a true story of Monarch Mind Control.

C J Hart’s literary reviews.

Searching For Daddy – Sept 09. Over 120,000 copies sold. Hodder and Stoughton – Translated into Punjabi – got into Sunday Times Top 20 best seller list at no 17.

Reminiscent of Silence of the Lambs. Hard to put down. (The News of The World 09)

Title – In For the Kill – Mainstream – July 2012. Translated into Punjabi 2013.

This is Lady Chatterley’s lover, but in the shadow of the gun man instead of a game-keeper. (Sunday World 2012)

More Mills and Bombs than Mills and Boon. (The Irish Independent – 2012.)

A gripping and addictive read. (Prohibition magazine.)

Title – The Devil’s Daughter – New Author Publications 1995.

If only Hart had of had a better editor she would have afforded us the best book ever written about a childhood. Val Hennessey, Daily Mail.