A full time author, Kirsten is a former customs officer and antiques dealer, and who has also dabbled in film and television.

Her historical time travel series - The Old Curiosity Shop Series (which includes Fifteen Postcards, The Last Letter and Telegram Home), has been described as 'Time Travellers Wife meets Far Pavilions', and 'Antiques Roadshow gone viral'.

Kirsten released her bestselling gothic thriller Painted in 2017, with her medical thriller - Doctor Perry, following in 2018. Both books hit #1 in the Canadian and Australian horror charts.

Her latest thriller - The Forger and the Thief, was released in July 2020. A historical thriller, set in Florence, Italy.

Kirsten lives in New Zealand with her husband, her daughters, two rescue cats.

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