I was born in London and now live in Norwich with my husband and two dogs. After a degree in English Literature, and a few abortive career choices, I found my home as an English teacher for 23 years. I completed my PhD in Victorian domestic murder at London University in 2009, but my fascination with Victorian crime never left me. In 2019 I completed the Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) MA at UEA where I was awarded the David Higham Scholarship and received the UEA Little Brown Award for Crime Fiction.
The Tumbling Girl, the first in a series of crime novels set in the 1870s and featuring an intrepid, working-class heroine and her somewhat posher sidekick, was published by Gallic in 2023.
Books in order of publication:
Domestic Murder in Nineteenth-Century England: Literary and Cultural Representations – 2014
The Tumbling Girl (Variety Palace Mysteries # 1) – 2023
The Innocents (Variety Palace Mysteries # 2) – 2024
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