Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist, and is the author of two works of non-fiction and the recipient of an Escalator Award from Arts Council England. She lives with her partner, and shares her time between Cambridge and Cornwall.

'The arrival of a new and assured talent is always a pleasure for aficionados of the classical detective story...To be able to evoke a fictional world which is at the same time totally believable is a rare talent and Nicola Upson is to be congratulated on this the first of what promises to be a distinguished series.' - P. D. James'Nicola Upson's clever and evocative debut novel...this novelist certainly has the prose and the nous.' - Guardian

Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist, and is the author of two works of non-fiction and the recipient of an Escalator Award from Arts Council England. She lives with her partner, and shares her time between Cambridge and Cornwall.

'The arrival of a new and assured talent is always a pleasure for aficionados of the classical detective story...To be able to evoke a fictional world which is at the same time totally believable is a rare talent and Nicola Upson is to be congratulated on this the first of what promises to be a distinguished series.' - P. D. James'Nicola Upson's clever and evocative debut novel...this novelist certainly has the prose and the nous.' - Guardian

Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist, and is the author of two works of non-fiction and the recipient of an Escalator Award from Arts Council England. She lives with her partner, and shares her time between Cambridge and Cornwall.

'The arrival of a new and assured talent is always a pleasure for aficionados of the classical detective story...To be able to evoke a fictional world which is at the same time totally believable is a rare talent and Nicola Upson is to be congratulated on this the first of what promises to be a distinguished series.' - P. D. James'Nicola Upson's clever and evocative debut novel...this novelist certainly has the prose and the nous.' - Guardian