Louise Phillip's debut novel, RED RIBBONS, featuring criminal psychologist Kate Pearson, was nominated for the Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year, and her second novel, THE DOLL'S HOUSE, won the award. Louise's work has formed part of many literary anthologies, and she has won both the Jonathan Swift Award and the Irish Writers' Centre Lonely Voice platform, along with being shortlisted for the Molly Keane Memorial Award, Bridport UK, and many others. She is the recipient of an arts bursary for literature, and this year, she was awarded a writers' residency at Cill Rialaig Artist retreat. She was also a judge on the Irish panel for the EU Literary Award. Polis Books will be releasing her Kate Pearson series in North American for the first time beginning with Red Ribbons. Visit her at louisephillips.com and follow her at @LouiseMPhillips.