Her debut as Anya Lipska - 'Where the Devil Can't Go' - led to her being selected for Val McDermid's prestigious New Blood Panel at the Theakstons Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate 2013. She went on to write a much-loved trilogy following the investigations of Polish fixer Kiszka and Met detective Kershaw.
Her latest crime thriller is Body Language, featuring Cassie Raven, a Goth girl mortuary technician who talks to the dead. Raven was first introduced in two short stories read by Ellie Kendrick on BBC Radio 4. The series is published by Zaffre in the UK and by publishers in Germany, France, Ukraine, and Russia.
In her day job as a producer of factual TV documentaries, Anya has worked on a wide range of topics from a missing Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, to the sex lives of Neanderthals, and a history of Italian gardens with Monty Don.