Kate Griffin

Literary Agent: Eugenie Furniss

Kate Griffin was the winner of the 2012 Faber /Stylist Magazine competition to find a distinctive new voice and character in crime. The resulting ‘Kitty Peck’ series navigates the squalid back streets of Victorian Limehouse, the aristocratic corridors of power and the transgressive world of music hall - all viewed through the eyes of a young whip-smart aerial artiste (Kitty Peck) and her ‘family’ of outsiders.

There are now four books in the series: Kitty Peck & the Music Hall Murders (2013), Kitty Peck & the Child of Ill Fortune (2015), Kitty Peck & the Daughter of Sorrow (2017) and Kitty Peck & the Parliament of Shadows (2019). All published by Faber.

Kate has worked in journalism and communications. Until 2019 she was Head of Press for Britain’s oldest conservation charity SPAB (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings), she also devised communications and PR for Sir John Soane's Museum in London. Her love of old buildings and the stories they tell continues to inspire her writing.

Her first standalone novel, Fyneshade, was published by Viper in 2023 and was a Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of 2023. Writing as Lila Cain with Marcia Hutchinson, a Georgian-set novel, 'The Blackbirds of St Giles' - focusing on the little-known black community of one the most notorious rookeries of 18th-century London - will be published in January 2025 by Simon and Schuster. A sequel is already underway.

(Photo Credit - Stephen Griffin)