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Lizzy Barber is the Richard & Judy bestselling author of psychological suspense who writes crime fiction novels. She studied English at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.

Before becoming an author, Lizzy worked as the Head of Brand and Marketing for the Hush Collection, a boutique restaurant group in London founded by her brother Jamie Barber. With previous experiences in acting and film development, she started to explore her interest in fiction writing; she took regular writing classes and started writing her first long novel. She later submitted her draft to the Daily Mail and Random House First Novel competition and won the the Daily Mail and Random House First Novel Prize 2017. This draft later came to be her debut novel My Name is Anna. Currently, Lizzy balances her time between her job working in the restaurants and her hobby of writing.

Lizzy published her first novel My Name is Anna in 2019. The book was published by Penguin Random House in the UK, Mira/Harper Collins in the US, and by Albatros in Slovakia. The novel introduces the story of Anna, who started to uncover.

Her second novel, Out of her Depth, was published in 2022 and was named a Richard & Judy Book Club Pick. It was by Pan Macmillan in the UK, and Harper Collins in the US.