Heidi Edmundson was born by the sea and grew up with the legends of Northern Ireland’s spectacular Causeway Coast. Her family 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 like Nancy Drew when she grew up. 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.

She studied medicine at Dundee University and 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.

During the COVID pandemic she experienced first-hand the importance of having a daily creative practice to manage stress and anxiety. She originally planned to only 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.