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Laura Shepherd-Robinson is an author, born in Bristol in 1976. She has a BSc in Politics from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics.

Laura worked in politics for nearly twenty years before re-entering normal life to complete an MA in Creative Writing at City University. She lives in London with her husband, Adrian.

Blood & Sugar, her first novel, won the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown and the Specsaver’s Debut Crime Novel award, was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month, and a Guardian and Telegraph novel of the year. It was also shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and the Sapere Historical Dagger; the Amazon Publishing/Capital Crime Best Debut Novel; and the Goldsboro Glass Bell; and longlisted for the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year.

Her new novel, Daughters of Night, is out now. It has been shortlisted for Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year and Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown, longlisted for the Goldsboro Glass Bell and Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger and was a Book of the Year in The Times, The i, and the Guardian.


Daughters of Night – out now in paperback

Lucia’s fingers found her own. She gazed at Caro as if from a distance. Her lips parted, her words a whisper: ‘He knows.’

From the brothels and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham, as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom London society would rather forget . . .

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I would gamble what’s left of my virtue on Daughters of Night being the best historical crime novel I will read this year.

The Times

Buy Daughters of Night in hardback: Amazon | Waterstones

Buy Daughters of Night in paperback: Amazon | Waterstones


Blood & Sugar – out now in paperback

Blood & Sugar Paperback Cover

London, 1781. An investigation into a gruesome murder on the Deptford Docks leads to a dark secret that could change the very core of British society…

A page-turner of a crime thriller . . . This is a world conveyed with convincing, terrible clarity.

C. J. Sansom

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Buy Blood & Sugar: Amazon | Waterstones


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