Claire McGowan is a writer of crime and literary fiction, and has also published women's fiction as Eva Woods. She was born in Northern Ireland and now lives in London.


Claire's first novel, The Fall, was published in 2012 and has been followed by several bestsellers, radio plays and screenplays. Claire also ran the UK’s first MA in crime writing for five years, and regularly teaches creative writing. She has seen almost twenty former students go on to be successfully published.