
Nicola is an award-winning author of psychological thrillers, short stories and non-fiction. Nicola was brought up in Bristol and returned there as an adult. She’s happy to bore you to tears telling you about what a great city it is. Her debut novel, Dead Ringer, a thriller about meeting your doppelganger, won the Fiction Prize at the 2021 Lakeland Book of the Year Awards. Her forthcoming novel, The Getaway, a murder-mystery set on a private island in the Caribbean, is due to be published by Bloomsbury Raven in November 2024. Following a 15-year career in PR/marketing, Nicola is now a full-time writer. She studied literature at the University of East Anglia and the University of California, Berkeley.