SJI Holliday, also known as Susan Jennifer Inglis, is a Scottish author best known for her crime novels and psychological thrillers. She was born and raised in the small Scottish town of Haddington, East Lothian, where she worked in her family’s publishing and newsagent business before attending college. Holliday studied statistics and microbiology at St Andrews Dundee and later went on to work as a pharmaceutical statistician for sixteen years. It was during a 6-month round-the-world-trip with her husband that she rediscovered her passion for writing.\n \nHolliday’s debut novel, “Black Wood”, was the first in the Banktoun series of novels and was met with massive popularity and critical acclaim. She also publishes books under the name Susi Holliday, including the serial killer thriller “The Deaths of December”. Her short stories have been featured in several notable anthologies and she has been shortlisted for the Crimefest Flashbang awards, the MR Hall Crime Writing Competition, and the CWA Margery Allingham awards.
When she is not writing, Holliday enjoys exploring and walking, listening to rock and grunge music from the 90s, and singing with her cool crime writer friends in a group called “The Slice Girls”. She also writes flash fiction and occasionally does editing and review pieces for Shots Magazine and FlashFlood Journal. Holliday is a bestselling author of 11 novels, a novella, and many short stories. She currently resides in London, but frequently travels to Edinburgh and around the world.