KATHLEEN McCAUL
I was born in London in 1981 and later went on to Oxford to study English Literature. After my finals in 2003 I went to Baghdad to help set up the first post war English language newspaper – the Baghdad Bulletin. After this I went to Kashmir, and worked on a local newspaper, the Kashmir Observer. I then did a MA in Goldsmiths before joining the BBC World Service. In 2007 I moved to Delhi where I reported for the radio and began writing my first novel Murder in the Ashram, which is about a crime committed in a yoga centre in Delhi. I have always written short stories but this took on a life of its own. I now work for Al Jazeera English in the newsroom and continue to write.
LATEST BOOK: MURDER IN THE ASHRAM
Ruby Jones has moved to Delhi to pursue her dreams of becoming an international news journalist. But when the body of Stephen Newby, her flatmate and best friend, is pulled from the Yamuna River - and the mystery around his death becomes more and more mysterious - she puts her investigative instincts to good use as she tries to uncover who's responsible.
Ruby's questions take her deeper and deeper into the world of Indian policing - and into the heart of a yoga ashram. She discovers that the yoga world isn't always the calm, spiritual place advertised, but that beneath the breathing exercises and dog poses lies something sinister - something that she's certain points to dark, hidden secrets that could have huge repercussions for all involved if discovered . . .
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Murder in the Ashram, Piatkus/Little Brown, 2011
