D.M. Austin lives with her husband and their teenage son in their home county of Yorkshire. As a mature student, D.M. Austin studied Primary Teaching for two years and Education Studies for the final third year at York St John University before graduating with a First Class honours. A CHRISTMAS MURDER OF CROWS is D.M. Austin's debut novel, introducing Inspector Gilbert Dunderdale as a Golden Age detective. When not writing, D.M. Austin can be found hill walking, mountain biking, drawing or snuggled in her reading corner reading fiction and non-fiction across a range of genres. More recently, D.M. Austin has been accepted as a member of the Crime Writers' Association and A CHRISTMAS MURDER OF CROWS is the winner of Crime Fiction Lover's BEST DEBUT NOVEL of 2022.