Autor/-in: Heidi Edmundson

Heidi Edmundson was born by the sea and grew up surrounded by the legends of Northern Ireland's spectacular Causeway Coast. Her parents and grandparents ran guesthouses in Portrush and she spent summer holidays working in the White House Department Store and the change box of Barry's Amusement Arcade. As a child, she was fascinated by myths and fairy tales of all kinds. She was an avid reader of mystery stories and wanted to be Nancy Drew. Her love of crime fiction continued into adolescence when, one summer, she discovered a box full of Agatha Christie books with the original Fontana covers. After attending Coleraine High School, she went to university in Dundee to study medicine and has worked as a doctor since 1994, predominantly for the NHS. She currently lives in North London where she has been a consultant in Emergency Medicine for over ten years. She is a passionate advocate for staff wellbeing and building positive workplace cultures. When the COVID pandemic began to take hold in Britain in March 2020 she experienced first-hand the importance of having a daily creative practice to manage stress and anxiety. She originally planned to write a short story but surprised herself by discovering that she had a lot more to say, and she enjoyed creating a crime to solve as much as reading about one. It was the next best thing to being Nancy Drew.