Marnie Riches

Marnie Riches grew up on a rough estate in north Manchester. Exchanging the spires of nearby Strangeways prison for those of Cambridge University, she gained a Masters in German & Dutch. She has been a punk, a trainee rock star, a pretend artist and professional fundraiser. Aside from literary pursuits, gardening is her passion.

Marnie’s award-winning crime-thriller debut, 'The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die', is ten years old this spring, and in that decade she has become a bestselling contributor to the genre, with four critically acclaimed series and hundreds of thousands of books sold in the UK alone. 'The Gardeners’ Club' may be Marnie’s twelfth murder mystery, but it is her first foray into cosy crime…with a horticultural twist!

When she isn’t writing about murder most foul, Marnie teaches academic writing for the Royal Literary Fund. She has been a course tutor and supervisor for Cambridge University’s Masters in crime- and thriller-writing. She teaches crime-writing for New Writing North and has also taught the Faber Novel Writing Course. She pens historical romance under the pseudonym, Maggie Campbell.