
Over the years, Laura Purcell had a very diverse taste in genres but held a particular love for thrillers, well written historical sagas and the Classics. In recent times, she worked in the Realm podcast Roanoke Falls as lead writer, working with executive producers Sandy King Carpenter and John Carpenter. Over the years, her short stories have been published in the likes of “The Haunting Season” and the “Sunday Times” among many other places. Purcell is the winner of the 2018 WHSmith Thumping Award and was also shortlisted for the Best Original Paperback Edgar Award and the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award. The series of historical novels did so well that she has gone on to pen more than eight titles over the years. She is a former bookseller who decided to get into fiction writing when she published “Queen of Bedlam,” the debut novel of her series in 2014.



Laura Purcell is a bestselling horror, paranormal and historical fiction author best known for the “Hanoverian” series of novels.
