In a wide-ranging working life, Julia Crouch has been a waitress, shop assistant, theatre director, playwright, teacher, publicist, graphic/website designer and illustrator. But she has never been happier than during the past five years, when she has been fully occupied as a novelist, producing five chiling Domestic Noir novels – Cuckoo, Every Vow You Break, Tarnished, The Long Fall and (out in January 2017) Her Husband’s Lover. Julia lives in Brighton with her family and works in a shed at the bottom of her garden, sometimes aided – but mostly hindered – by her two cats.