Engineer by day, Writer by night. A professional engineer with decades of international manufacturing experience, Fiona Erskine’s first graduate job was in the factory described in Phosphate Rocks.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Fiona grew up riding motorbikes and jumping into cold water.
After studying chemical engineering at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, she learned to weld, cast and machine with apprentices in Paisley. As a professional engineer she has worked and travelled internationally and is now based in the North East of England.
Fiona’s stand-alone portrait of a factory Phosphate Rocks: A Death In Ten Objects, made the Literary Review’s top ten crime novels when first published by Sandstone Press.
Her other books include the Jaq Silver series published by Point Blank, the literary crime imprint of Oneworld:
- The Chemical Detective (shortlisted for the SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARD ),
- The Chemical Reaction (shortlisted for the 2020 STAUNCH Prize),
- The Chemical Cocktail (An FT Best Summer Book of 2022),
- The Chemical Code.
