Death at the Dolphin

Bestselling UK author Gretta Mulrooney (1952-2023) was born in London of Irish parents and did an English degree in Derry, Northern Ireland. She lived for a few years in Dublin, working as a hospital cleaner, a plastics riveter (fitting together Guinness signs) and teaching English, before returning to England to teach and become a social worker. She started writing novels in her 30s, publishing children's books, short stories, literary fiction that won critical acclaim and, in her later years, crime fiction. She also wrote for the BBC and Radio Four. Amongst other crime fiction, Mulrooney wrote 10 novels about a London-based former police officer and private detective, Tyrone Swift. She also created a 5-book series featuring a female police officer DI Siv Drummond, set in the fictional Sussex town of Berminster and a 2-book series set in post WWII Britain featuring amateur detective Daisy Moore, who had undertaken secret work for the British government at Whitehall during the war.

Emma Noakes is an English actor, born and raised in Enfield Lock, London. She studied at The Oxford School of Drama, and won the Carleton Hobbs Award. Emma is an experienced audiobook narrator, who has also performed in over 40 BBC radio plays. As for theatre, Emma has been on stage at the RSC, Old Vic and Theatre Royal Haymarket. Her TV highlights include Call The Midwife (2012) and The Salisbury Poisonings (2020).