Lindsay Ashford is an award-winning British mystery novelist and journalist. Her writing has been compared to that of Vivien Armstrong, Linda Fairstein, and Frances Fyfield. Raised in Wolverhampton, Ashford became the first woman to graduate from Queens’ College Cambridge in its 550-year history. She has a degree in criminology and, in 1996, began writing mysteries. Ashford divides her time between a home on the Welsh coast near Aberystwyth, Wales, and the village of Chawton (Jane Austen’s home) in Hampshire, England.