O'Connor, Zara is an Irish-born thriller writer raised in Limerick and based between Dublin and Key West. A former court reporter and night-shift copy editor, she studied criminology at University College Cork and later consulted for a small cybersecurity firm in Miami, experiences that shape her meticulous, atmospheric crime fiction. Her work has appeared in regional magazines, and her second novel was shortlisted for a Munster arts award. When not writing, she crews on a friend\'s sloop out of Stock Island and volunteers with a community literacy program. She lives with a rescue terrier named Clove.
