Vicky Newham

Vicky Newham is a reputed British psychologist, teacher, and novelist. She is well known for writing mystery, thriller, and crime novels and has successfully published the widely popular DI Maya Rahman novel series. This police procedural series is set in a multi-cultural background in East London. The East London setup depicted in Newham’s novels as well as the characters mentioned in them are the outcomes of the four years that she spent living there. She was employed in the Tower Hamlets region. Author Newham was born in Chichester and was brought up in Sussex. Before deciding to try her hand at writing novels, she used to teach Psychology in London. Newham was employed as a psychologist for several years before she moved to Kent to pursue her writing career. Currently, she lives in Kent and enjoys her time as a writer. Newham says that she is fascinated by things that make people tick and push them to commit murder and violence. She keeps thinking about such stories and sets her novels’ plots around such elements.