Catriona McPherson

Born and raised in West Lothian, Catriona McPherson left Edinburgh University with a PhD in linguistics and worked in academia, as well as banking and public libraries, before taking up full-time writing in 2001. For the last ten years she has lived in Northern California with frequent visits home. In 2020 she was shortlisted for a third Mary Higgins Clark Award, for Strangers at the Gate, and won her second Left Coast Crime Lefty Award in the Best Humorous Mystery category for the Last Ditch series, this time for Scot and Soda.