Malla Nunn is the author of four internationally published Emmanuel Cooper crime novels. A Beautiful Place to Die, Let the Dead Lie, Blessed Are the Dead and Present Darkness have, between them, received two Edgar Award nominations, a Davitt Award and two Antony Award nominations. The series is currently being developed for television by Goalpost pictures. Malla’s debut YA novel, When the Ground is Hard, was named a Kirkus Review’s “Book of the Year for 2019” and won the L.A. Times Book prize for Best Young Adult Novel.  Her second Y.A novel Sugar Town Queens was released in 2020.

Born and raised in Eswatini, Malla now lives and works in a weatherboard house in Sydney, Australia.