Born in Bristol in 1976, Laura Shepherd-Robinson studied politics at the University of Bristol and Political Theory at the London School of Economics before embarking on a twenty-year career in the political arena. Having abandoned writing two novels in her spare time, she finally decided ‘that it would be more fun writing about liars, crooks and psychopaths than working with them,’ and quit to enrol on an MA in Creative Writing at City University. Her debut crime novel, Blood and Sugar, tackled themes of slavery and political intrigue in Georgian London within a page-turning plotline and was shortlisted for numerous awards – winning the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown - as well as being named Waterstones Thriller of the Month in January 2020. Daughters of Night followed in 2021 and probed the corruption at the heart of the late eighteenth-century capital through a gripping whodunit about the murder of a high-class prostitute. Shepherd-Robinson’s third novel The Square of Sevens, about a fortune telling lady on a perilous quest to discover the truth about her late mother, was published in 2023.
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