Barbara Copperthwaite is a national journalist in the UK, with over twenty years' experience, including as an editor of several UK publications. Her debut novel, Invisible, was an Amazon best seller. She was raised in the seaside town of Skegness, Lincolnshire, which is where she became a bookworm and lover of the written word. Her fascination with crime began when she briefly worked in a men's maximum security prison, before a brief stint as cabin crew... It was a circuitous route to journalism and novelist, but she got there eventually.