Margaret Murphy

Margaret Murphy was born and raised in Liverpool, gaining her first degree in Environmental Biology and her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool and JMU respectively. She has written 10 internationally acclaimed and bestselling psychological thrillers under her own name, and 5 forensic thrillers as Ashley Dyer and AD Garrett. She is a past Chair of the Crime Writers Association (CWA), founder of Murder Squad, and a former RLF Writing Fellow and Reading Round Lector. A Short Story Dagger, HRF Keating, and CWA Red Herring award winner, she has also been shortlisted for the ‘First Blood’ critics award and CWA Dagger in the Library. Margaret is a patron of Smithdown Litfest in Liverpool and co-founder of Perfect Crime UK, Liverpool’s first ever crime festival.