She writes historical fiction and is the creator of the six-book Silkstone series featuring Dr Thomas Silkstone, an American anatomist and early forensic scientist. She has also written the three-book Constance Piper series set in Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel. Her novel Beneath a Starless Sky won the Historical Fiction category of the 2021 International Book Awards.
Bibliography
2011— The Anatomist's Apprentice
2012— The Dead Shall Not Rest
2013— The Devil's Breath
2014— The Lazarus Curse
2015— Shadow of the Raven
2016— Secrets in the Stones
2017— The Sixth Victim
2018— The Angel Makers
2019— A Deadly Deception
2020— Beneath a Starless Sky
2021— The Light we Left Behind
2021— 100 Ways to Write a Book - 100 authors in conversation with Alex Pearl about their backgrounds, motivations and working methods.