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Tina Orr-Munro, born in 1966, is a British crime fiction author. She has written three books as part of the CSI Ally Dymond series, published by HarperCollins.
Personal Life
[edit]Orr-Munro, born in Hampshire, grew up in North Devon with her two sisters, her English mother and her Greek Armenian father.[1]
She graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1987 with a BA Hons Economic History.[2] Orr-Munro now lives in North Devon with her husband and has four children.[1]
Career
[edit]Orr-Munro previously worked as a Scenes of Crime Officer (SOCO). She changed her career at 33 to become a police and crime journalist[3] and is the former editor of Policing Insight Magazine.[1]
Orr-Munro has published three crime thrillers as part of the CSI Ally Dymond series based in North Devon.
Her debut crime novel, Breakneck Point, came after a 6-month creative writing course with Curtis Brown Creative, after which she was signed by Lucy Morris, a literary and talent agent with Curtis Brown.[4] Breakneck Point was published by HarperCollins in 2022.[5]
Breakneck Point was followed by Slaughterhouse Farm, published in 2023. The latest book in the series, Liars Island, was published in November 2024.[6]
Publications
[edit]Breakneck Point (2022)
Slaughterhouse Farm (2023)
Liars Island (2024)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c McDonald, Sally (May 24, 2022). "Meet the author: Tina Orr Munro on debut novel Breakneck Point".
- ^ "Insight Autumn 2011 Page 41". www.liverpool.ac.uk.
- ^ Clarke, Lewis (April 21, 2022). "Author debuts with crime thriller set on North Devon's rugged coastline". Devon Live.
- ^ "Tina Orr Munro: 'I wanted to delve deeper into my character's life and really test her'". Curtis Brown Creative.
- ^ "The CSI Ally Dymond series - Breakneck Point". HQ Stories.
- ^ "Curtis Brown". curtisbrown.co.uk.