Anita Waller was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1946. She married Dave in 1967 and they have three adult children.
She has written and taught creative writing for most of her life, and at the age of sixty nine sent a manuscript (entitled Beautiful) to Bloodhound Books which was immediately accepted.
Several psychological thrillers and one supernatural novel followed, and she uses the areas of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire as her preferred locations in her books. Sheffield features prominently.
Anita was then commissioned to write her first series, the Kat and Mouse quartet, set in the beautiful Derbyshire village of Eyam. Between December 2018 and October 2019 four books were launched, Murder Undeniable, Murder Unexpected, Murder Unearthed and Murder Untimely. A spin-off featuring one of the characters, Doris Lester, came next…Epitaph, and that was followed by what was supposed to be a final Kat and Mouse book, Murder Unjoyful. However, fan pressure prevailed, and there is now a spin-off series, the Connection Trilogy – Blood Red, Code Blue and Mortal Green, with the final one being launched March 2022. This is Anita’s twentieth book with Bloodhound Books.
She is now seventy-nine years of age, happily writing most days and would dearly love to plan a novel, but has accepted that isn’t the way of her mind. Every novel starts with a sentence and she waits to see where that sentence will take her, and her characters.
In 2022 she moved away from Bloodhound Books and signed a five-book deal with Boldwood Books. Her first novel, Flash Point, launched August 2022, with four books following by 2024. She was then offered a three book deal which she completed, the final book (The Missing Ones) launching in May 2025. She chose not to continue with Boldwood, and her next book, The House of Lies will launch in August 2025, exactly ten years to the day since the launch of her first book.
In her life away from the computer in the corner of her kitchen, she is a Sheffield Wednesday supporter with blue blood in her veins! The club was particularly helpful during the writing of 34 Days, as a couple of matches feature in the novel, along with Ross Wallace. Information was needed, and they provided it.
Her genre is murder – necessary murder.
Although she really does like writing supernatural…
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