Elodie Harper

Elodie Harper is a British novelist and journalist whose career spans contemporary thriller and bestselling historical fiction set in the ancient world. She worked for the BBC and Channel 4 News before joining ITV News Anglia as a reporter — a career in broadcast journalism that honed her storytelling instincts and gave her material for her debut. Harper's first novel, The Binding Song, is a psychological thriller set in a fictional Norfolk prison where the new lead psychologist discovers that a string of inmate suicides conceals a far darker truth. She then turned to historical fiction with the Wolf Den trilogy — The Wolf Den, The House with the Golden Door, and The Temple of Fortuna — set in ancient Pompeii and following a group of women enslaved in a brothel. The Wolf Den became a number one Sunday Times bestseller and the trilogy has been praised for its vivid recreation of the ancient world and its unflinching exploration of female survival and agency. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers both contemporary suspense and epic historical fiction, united by strong female protagonists navigating dangerous worlds.