British · b. 1992
Holly Jackson is a British author of young-adult crime fiction. She was born in 1992 and grew up in Buckinghamshire, England. She studied English and creative writing at the University of Nottingham. Her debut novel, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2019), began as a project she worked on while studying and became an international bestseller. It introduced Pip Fitz-Amobi, a teenage amateur detective, and led to a series that includes Good Girl, Bad Blood and As Good as Dead. Jackson also wrote the standalone thrillers Five Survive and The Reappearance of Rachel Price, and the Kill Joy prequel novella. Her books mix school-age characters with real criminal stakes, and they are often credited with feeding a wave of young-adult mysteries. The Pip series was adapted for television by the BBC. Jackson's work has been translated into many languages and sold millions of copies worldwide.