R. O. Thorp

R. O. Thorp is an Australian living in Cork, Ireland, where she writes lyrics and herds cats. She was one of the Observer‘s top 10 debut novelists of 2021, and her writing has won the London Short Story Award and been shortlisted for the BBC Opening Lines Prize. The Blanchard Twins mysteries so far comprise Death on Ice (2025) and Marked for Death (2026).