Sonya Nemec was born in Edinburgh and educated at James Gillespie's - the inspiration for Marcia Blaine's in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. This probably influenced an early obsession with the work of Muriel Spark. Later literary influences came to include Patricia Highsmith, Daphne du Maurier, Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie.

Sonya's work typically has shades of all the above but with a very modern - and deliciously satirical - twist. Her first novel - The Rachel Redemption (December 2012) took Death of Diana conspiracy theory and re-imagined it as the death of the (fictional) Prime Minister's wife. The explosive follow up - The Rachel Revolution - continues the story and deals with the characters' unfinished business three years on (released July 2018). Her other full length work is the wickedly funny and non-partisan Edinburied (July 2014) - set in the nine months running up to the Scottish referendum.

Shorter reads - but no less entertaining - are: Brexit Wounds - a dystopian future novella set ten years on from the Brexit vote; Letter from America - an Twilight Zone type extended short story which imagines a world where the current POTUS was never born; The Pigneto Suicide Club - a collection of short stories all about suicide, tourism and madness.

And - at long last - the first in my murder mystery series featuring the tenacious and 'woman in her prime' Mary Dollar, private investigator - When in Rome, Kill Me.

**Check out my fantasy casting for The Rachel Redemption and The Rachel Revolution**

https://therachelredemption.wordpress.com/

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