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Catriona McPherson
Born and raised in West Lothian, Catriona McPherson left Edinburgh University with a PhD in Linguistics and worked in academia, as well as banking and public libraries, before taking up full-time writing in 2001. For the last ten years she has lived in Northern California with frequent visits home. Among numerous prizes, she has won two of Left Coast Crime’s coveted Humorous Lefty Awards, as well as the inaugural Anthony Award for Best Humorous Novel, for the Last Ditch comedies. Her latest novel, Hop Scot, is now available from Severn.
On The Horrifying, Hilarious Violence of a Punch & Judy Puppet Show
"Because who doesn’t love a puppet, with a wriggling, uneasy love that might be terror?"
The End of Things: My Favorite Islands in Crime Fiction
“Best of an island is once you get there—you can’t go any farther … you’ve come to the end of things."
