Brigid has a diverse professional background, having worked as a teacher,
solicitor, and criminal barrister. Immersed in a world of crime and having
authored numerous legal articles, she was inevitably drawn to the realm of crime
fiction. Surprisingly, this literary world wasn’t so dissimilar from the reality of
the crimes she encountered in her everyday work.
Born in Glasgow to a Scottish father and Irish mother, she moved to the North
of England as a teenager. She has a son and now lives in Greater Manchester.
On a winter’s night, in a grubby alleyway, in a northern town, Josh, a 17-year-old A Level student, is found stabbed to death.The police investigation soon focuses on the four people who were in the alleyway with him that night – Josh’s girlfriend, Naomi and three members of a local gang, invo...