Eva Björg Ægisdóttir lives with her husband and their three children in Reykjavík. She was born and raised in Akranes, a small town about half an hour drive from Reykjavík which is the scene for her novel. After finishing a Bachelor's degree in Sociology she moved from Akranes to Trondheim, Norway, where she got her Master's degree in Globalisation.  

Ever since she was a child she has been fascinated with books. She soon started writing, although at first it was mostly diaries and half-finished stories. As a teenager she won a short story contest and after that she was determined to become a writer in the future. After moving back to Iceland in 2015, she decided to finally start writing her first novel. Being a mother, she knew it would be difficult to find time to write having the usual 9 - 5 job. In order to have time to write, she got a job as a flight attendant and in nine months she finished the first draft of her novel. 

In 2018, Eva was the recipient of the Blackbird Award, a crime-writing prize hosted by prolific Iceland authors Yrsa Sigurdardóttir and Ragnar Jónasson, for her debut novel Marrid Í Stiganum (The Creak on the Stairs), ​which was published in spring 2020 by Orenda Books and went on to win the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger 2021. She is now the author of six crime novels, with more in the pipeline.

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