Flynn Berry

Flynn Berry
In a 2024 video for Woodstock Community Television
EducationBrown University
OccupationWriter

Flynn Berry is an American writer. She is most widely known for her book Under the Harrow.

Early life

Berry attended The Masters School before matriculating to Brown University. She then studied writing at the Michener Center for Writers.

Career

In 2016, Berry published Under the Harrow, a mystery novel about a woman's murder in a sleepy English town and the effects of the murder upon her sister. The book received universally positive reviews. It also won the 2017 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. In 2018, Berry published A Double Life based on the murder of Sandra Rivett and the subsequent disappearance of Lord Lucan. In 2021, Berry published Northern Spyand in 2024, its sequel, Trust Her. Her fifth novel, A Good Man on a Dark Night, is forthcoming in January 2027 from Viking.

Books

Notes

  1. 1 2 Brundage, Elizabeth (July 27, 2016). "A Thriller for Fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl". The New York Times. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ Allison, Courtney. "Flynn Berry". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Under the Harrow". Penguin Random House. Penguin Random House. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ "The 2017 Edgar® Winners and Nominees". The Edgars. Mystery Writers of America. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Shades of Lord Lucan: A Double Life, by Flynn Berry, reviewed". The Spectator. December 8, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2019.