Julie Wassmer

Julie Wassmer is a British television drama writer turned mystery novel writer. Wassmer was born in London’s East End and went to Kingston University, after which she worked on a number of jobs before settling on television script writing. Writing for nearly two decades, she was lead writer on some of the most popular of British drama including C5’s “Family Affairs”, ITV’s London’s’ “Burning”, and the very popular “Eastenders” on BBC. Her novel writing career was launched in 2010 when she wrote the autobiographical “More Than Just Coincidence”. The novel told the story of how she was reunited with her daughter who she had lost contact with since she was a teenager. The novel was so popular and was named Mumsnet Book of the Year and got into the top twenty of the Sunday Times Bestselling books for nonfiction. She debuted her fiction writing career with the 2015 published “The Whitstable Pearl Mystery”. She followed her debut with three more titles that were just as popular leading to the series being optioned for TV. She currently lives in Whitstable with her husband and her two cats Poppy and Charlie. In her free time she loves to campaign for environmental issues, and has been most vocal in her fight against fracking.