Margaret Murphy (writer)

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Margaret Murphy (born 14 April 1959) is a British crime writer from Liverpool. She studied Environmental Biology at the University of Liverpool and earned an MA in Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, where she later lectured. She has worked as a countryside ranger, science teacher, and dyslexia specialist.

Murphy has written many stand-alone novels and two crime series. Her first series begins with The Dispossessed and continues with Now You See Me, featuring detectives Jeff Rickman, Lee Foster and Naomi Hart; a third book was planned for 2020. She also wrote the Clara Pascal duology, Darkness Falls and Weaving Shadows, which received starred reviews in the United States. Critics have praised her work, with the New York Times calling her prose “skin-chilling.”

She has been shortlisted for major crime-writing awards and founded the Murder Squad, a touring group of crime writers. Murphy has served as Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and of the Debut Dagger, and she received a Red Herring award for her service.

Under the name A.D. Garrett, she published Everyone Lies in 2013, followed by Believe No One and Truth Will Out. In 2017 she published Splinter in the Blood under the pen name Ashley Dyer; the US edition was published by William Morrow, and The Cutting Room appeared in the US in 2019 and in the UK in 2020. She has appeared on BBC radio and TV programs.