Pip Skinner

The author has spent 30 years working as an exploration geologist managing remote sites and doing due diligence of projects in more than thirty countries. Her latest book, published under the name of Pip Skinner, is a whodunnit set on Mars. Think the Martian with fewer potatoes and more murders; a cross between Agatha Christie and the Da Vinci Code. It follows the first crewed mission to Mars to pick up the Perseverance samples from the surface and was inspired by the author's interest in space exploration.

She also writes under the pen names of PJ Skinner (adventure thrillers) and Kate Foley (Irish novels).