Deborah Masson was born and bred in Aberdeen, Scotland. Always restless and fighting against being a responsible adult, Deborah worked in several jobs including secretarial, marketing, reporting for the city’s weekly freebie newspaper, and a stint as a postie - to name but a few. But through it all, she always read crime fiction and, when motherhood finally settled her in to being an adult, maybe even a responsible one, she turned her hand to trying to write what she loved to read. Deborah started with short stories and flash fiction whilst her daughter napped and, when she later welcomed her son into the world, decided to challenge her writing further through online courses with Professional Writing Academy and Faber Academy, where she wrote her award-winning debut novel Hold Your Tongue, the first in the DI Eve Hunter series.
Her latest standalone thriller, I'll Be Watching You, was published by Transworld in February 2026 and has since garnered huge numbers of five-star reader and Amazon reviews. You can read more about Deborah's books on her website.
