
A.A. Chaudhuri is a History graduate and former City lawyer. Born and raised in Portsmouth, Hampshire, she now lives in Surrey with her family, where she writes full time. THE SCRIBE and THE ABDUCTION, published in July and December 2019 by LUME BOOKS, are her first crime book series, plunging readers into London’s glamorous legal world and featuring series’ heroine, Maddy Kramer, fiction’s first female City lawyer amateur sleuth, who teams up with charismatic DCI Jake Carver to solve a gruesome series of murders and a puzzling abduction. Both books were published in audio by Isis Audio in January and March 2021. She also contributed a short story, The Encounter, to Lume Books' crime anthology. GIVEN IN EVIDENCE, published May 2020, and had two short stories published on the CWA website. Her first psychological thriller with HERA BOOKS, She's Mine, was published in August 2021, her second, entitled The Loyal Friend, was published in June 2022. It will be published in the USA in August 2023. Her third psychological thriller with Hera, The Final Party, was published in May 2023. Besides being an avid reader, she enjoys fitness, films, anything Italian and a good margarita.