SR Masters grew up around Birmingham in the UK. After receiving a Philosophy degree from Cambridge University, he moved to Oxford to study public health. He’s worked across a variety of areas in the health service, including clinical trials.

His award-winning short fiction has been published internationally, and his debut novel The Killer You Know was released by Sphere/Little, Brown in the UK, and Orbit/Hachette in the USA. It was the Irish Independent‘s Book of the Week, while Publishers Weekly called Masters “a writer to watch”.