Alison Joseph is an English crime writer based in London where she was born and raised. She studied French and Philosophy at
Leeds University, and started her career as a documentary director, making programmes for Channel 4.[1] The first in her crime series, featuring detective nun Sister Agnes, was published in 1993. She has also written for radio, including adaptations of
Georges Simenon’s Maigret. She was Chair of the
Crime Writers Association from 2013 to 2015. The next Sister Agnes novel, The Judas Chalice, will be published in 2024.