Susan has published three novels (and a novella!) the first of which was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2015. She has also had short fiction published in a variety of magazines from the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine to Nature. While she has written primarily historical fiction, her latest novel, The Planter’s Daughter, is a contemporary crime novel – but with connections to the Irish Civil War. The second in the Keane and Xiao series, The Red Angel, a biting tale of the literary world and a chemotherapy drug used as a murder weapon, is out in February 2027.

Susan is a software developer, cancer survivor and member of the Green Party since 2017. She lives by the sea with her family in County Cork, Ireland.