M. R. C. Kasasian is an Anglo-Armenian Irish ex-dentist, and has been writing for over three decades. Raised in Lancashire, he has had careers as varied as factory hand, wine waiter, veterinary assistant and fairground worker. He lives with his wife in Suffolk in the summer and in a village in Malta in the winter.

He is the author of the Gower Street Series of Victorian detective novels, featuring curmudgeonly detective Sidney Grice and his strong-willed amanuensis March Middleton, which were praised for ‘unpicking the Sherlock Holmes template and refashioning it with wit and freshness.’ His ‘pitch-perfect World War Two crime’ series, the Betty Church Mysteries, were well received.

His latest novel, The Horror of Haglin House, is the first is a new series called the Violet Thorn Mysteries, and was published by Canelo in June 2023.