Saskia van der Zee
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Saskia van der Zee

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Saskia van der Zee first fell in love with the rugged beauty of the Shropshire Hills through the Lone Pine adventure stories she read as a child. Today, she lives in their heart, and their wild beauty inspires her writing.

Her love of crime fiction runs deep. She grew up reading her grandfather's old Agatha Christie paperbacks—some of the few English language books at the family home in Bilthoven, The Netherlands. From Christie, she progressed through the work of Ruth Rendell, P.D. James, Patricia Cornwell, Ian Rankin, Colin Dexter, and many more. This lifelong immersion in the genre has given her both an understanding of the crime fiction tradition and the tools to create her own distinctive voice within it.

After gaining an undergraduate degree in Medieval History from the University of Oxford and working in teaching and the arts, Saskia turned her focus to the craft that had been her lifelong passion: writing. She completed a Creative Writing MA with Distinction and began working on the novels that would become The Shropshire Mysteries, fusing her two great loves—the Shropshire landscape and crime fiction.

With a passion for both creative control and learning new skills, she embraced independent publishing. Her third novel in the series was released at the beginning of May.
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