The Killing Jar

Nicola Monaghan is an English author born in 1971 in Nottingham, England, who left a career in finance to pursue creative writing, earning an MA from Nottingham Trent University. Her debut novel The Killing Jar (2006) won the Betty Trask Award, Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, and Waverton Good Read Award, marking her as a rising talent listed by The Independent in 2006; notable subsequent works include Starfishing (2008), The Okinawa Dragon (2011), and the Dr Sian Love mystery series starting with Dead Flowers (2019).com.