Faith Martin was born in Oxford, and has spent all her life within twenty miles of the university city, even working at Somerville College for five years before turning to writing full-time. The author of the popular DI Hillary Greene novels, she also writes classic-style "whodunits" under the pen name Joyce Cato, but began her writing career as Maxine Barry, winning an award for penning romance novels. A popular writer for over twenty-five years, she has had nearly fifty novels published so far.
