About

Julie Anderson is a CWA Dagger-listed crime fiction writer and author.

Her latest A Death in the Afternoon (Hobeck Books, April 2025) is the second in the Clapham Trilogy of mysteries, all set in South London in the 1940s. It follows book one,  The Midnight Man (Hobeck Books, April 2024). Festival Days, book three will be available in Spring 2026. All are, or will be, available at all good book shops and on Amazon and as audiobooks from ISIS Audiobooks.

Julie has also written a trio of Whitehall thrillers, the last of which, Opera (Claret Press) was long-listed for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2023. This is the third in a series of political thrillers featuring Cassandra Fortune. Plague, the first, was published in September 2020 and Oracle, the second in May 2021. Julie has also written a two book series of adventure stories set in southern Spain during the 13th century. The first of these, Reconquista, was long listed for Mslexia Children’s Novel, 2016. All books are available at Waterstones and Amazon.

Before becoming a crime fiction writer, she was a senior civil servant, working across a variety of departments and agencies, including the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Unlike her protagonists, however, she doesn’t know where (all) the bodies are buried. She writes crime fiction and arts reviews for Time and Leisure Magazine and is a co-founder and Trustee of the Clapham Book Festival an annual celebration of books and reading in south London. She has recently been collaborating on an opera production of L’Elisir d’Amore by Donizetti for St Paul’s Opera.

Born in Worcestershire Julie now lives in south London where her latest crime fiction series is set, returning to her first love of writing historical fiction with The Midnight Man, and her most recent book, A Death in the Afternoon.