Morag Joss

Morag Joss’s writing career began in 1996 when her first short story won an award in a national competition. Starting to write, she says, meant “discovering a lifelong ambition I didn’t know I had.” Joss’s first three novels comprise the Sara Selkirk Mysteries, the first of which, Funeral Music, was a finalist for the Dilys Award. Half Broken Things won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Silver Dagger Award and was later adapted into a TV film starring Penelope Wilton, and The Night Following was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Some critics describe Joss’s work as psychological suspense and others as literary fiction. She received a PhD from Oxford Brookes University in 2014 and is now at work on her ninth novel, Good to Go.