Steph Broadribb was born in Birmingham and grew up in Buckinghamshire. A prolific reader, she adored crime fiction from the moment she first read Sherlock Holmes as a child. She’s worked in the UK and the US, has an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) and trained as a bounty hunter in California. Along with her other novels in the Retired Detectives Club series—Death in the Sunshine and Death at Paradise Palms—she has also written the Lori Anderson bounty hunter series and the Starke/Bell psychological police procedural books (writing as Stephanie Marland). Her books have been shortlisted for the eDunnit eBook of the Year Award, the ITW Best First Novel Award, the Dead Good Reader Awards for Fearless Female Character and Most Exceptional Debut, and longlisted for the Guardian ‘Not The Booker’ Prize. Along with other crime fiction authors, she provides coaching for new crime writers via www.crimefictioncoach.com. You can find out more about Steph at www.stephbroadribb.com, and get in touch via Instagram (@CrimeThrillerGirl) and Twitter (@crimethrillgirl).