Kate Griffin

Kate Griffin studied English literature at university and developed a healthy obsession with Victorian gothic novels. She has worked as an assistant to an antiques dealer, a journalist for local newspapers and for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, Kate's first book, won the Stylist/Faber crime writing competition. She is also the author of three subsequent Kitty Peck novels; a gothic standalone, Fyneshade</i>; and the co-author of the forthcoming The Blackbirds of St Giles with Marcia Hutchinson, under the pseudonym Lila Cain. Kate lives in St Albans.