Chris Longmuir was born in Wiltshire and now lives in Angus. Her family moved to Scotland when she was two. After leaving school at fifteen, Chris worked in shops, offices, mills, and factories, and was a bus conductor for a spell, before working as a social worker for Angus Council (latterly serving as Assistant Principal Officer for Adoption and Fostering).

Chris has published four contemporary thrillers; Night Watcher, Dead Wood, Missing Believed Dead, and Web of Deceit. Night Watcher and Dead Wood both won the SAW’s Pitlochry Award, and the latter book went on to win the Dundee International Book Prize. She has also written the Kirsty Campbell Historical Mystery Series comprising three books and has published the first book in a new Suffragette Mystery Series as well as a historical saga.

Chris is a member of the Society of Authors, the Crime Writers Association, and the Scottish Association of Writers. She writes short stories, articles, and crime novels, and has won numerous awards. Her first published book, Dead Wood, won the Dundee International Book Prize and was published by Polygon. She designed her own website and confesses to being a techno-geek who builds computers in her spare time.