Elizabeth Haynes is a former police intelligence analyst who lives in Norfolk with her husband and son. Her first novel, Into the Darkest Corner, was Amazon’s Best Book of the Year 2011 and a New York Times bestseller. Now published in 37 countries, it was originally written as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), an online challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. She has written a further three psychological thrillers—Revenge of the Tide, Human Remains and Never Alone — and two novels in the DCI Louisa Smith series, Under a Silent Moon and Behind Closed Doors.

Her last novel, The Murder of Harriet Monckton is based on an unsolved murder in 1843 and was published by Myriad..