Edel Coffey, who grew up in Ballybrack, south Dublin, is an author, journalist and broadcaster. After clinching a six-figure book deal with Sphere, her debut novel Breaking Point was published in 2022. It became a bestseller and won the An Post Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book Of The Year. Her second book, In Her Place, was published by Sphere in March. Edel lives in Galway with her husband and children.