Caron Allan was born in Kent in the south of England and then moved to Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire before her family relocated to Brisbane, Australia. After living there for five eventful years, which provided plenty of material for Caron's novels and short stories, the family returned to the UK in 2002. Although Caron mainly writes in the mystery/crime genre she also enjoys dabbling in fantasy fiction. Married with two grown up children and now living in Derbyshire, England, Caron previously worked as a railway ticket clerk, a classroom assistant, a secondhand bookshop assistant, an archivis...