Bridget Walsh was born in London to Irish immigrant parents. She studied English literature at university and later acquired both a PhD in Victorian domestic murder and an obsessive interest in the weirder elements of nineteenth-century life. Bridget lives in Norwich with her husband, Micky, and her two dogs. Her debut and the first book in the Variety Palace Mysteries The Tumbling Girl won the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown and was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger. The Innocents was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year. Both are available from Pushkin Vertigo.