Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour | 2017 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Unseeing | 2016 | Buy |
| The Story Keeper | 2018 | Buy |
| The Clockwork Girl | 2022 | Buy |
| The House of Whispers | 2023 | Buy |
| The Book of Secrets | 2024 | N/A |
Anna Mazzola is a British author and human rights solicitor who writes historical crime fiction rooted in real events. She trained as a lawyer within the Government Legal Service, working for the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice, before moving into private practice as a human rights solicitor. She is also a consultant at the Centre for Women’s Justice. Her legal work with victims of crime feeds directly into her fiction, which often explores the psychological weight of injustice.
Her debut novel, The Unseeing (2016), drew on the true 1837 Edgware Road murder case and won the Edgar Award in the US. She followed it with The Story Keeper (2018), set on the Isle of Skye during the Highland Clearances, and The Clockwork Girl (2022), set in 1750s Paris amid the disappearances of street children. The House of Whispers (2023) moved to Fascist-era Rome, and The Book of Secrets (2024), inspired by the Acqua Tofana poisonings in 17th-century Italy, won the 2025 CWA Gold Dagger. She also contributed a short story to the CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour (2017). Mazzola lives in South London and also writes legal thrillers under the pen name Anna Sharpe.