Sarah Moorhead
Liverpool author of Witness X and The Treatment, blending crime fiction with speculative science and questions about justice.
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TrapezeOverview
- Based in
- Liverpool, England
- Work
- Novelist, true crime podcast scriptwriter and writing coach
- Also published as
- S. E. Moorhead
- Debut
- Witness X, 2020
- Studies
- Theology
Mini bio
How it started.
Sarah grew up in Liverpool and began writing seriously at 27, starting with short stories and a writers’ group. She describes a twenty-year journey to publication, with workshops, author talks and plenty of revision along the way.
The first novel.
Witness X introduced her blend of crime and speculative science in 2020, published as S. E. Moorhead. Its neuropsychologist heroine uses technology to enter witnesses’ memories while pursuing a serial killer.
Questions of justice.
The Treatment followed in 2023. Psychiatrist Grace Gunnarsson discovers a flaw in a privatised offender rehabilitation system that allows people to get away with murder.
Beyond the novels.
A former secondary-school teacher and chaplain, Sarah has written true crime podcast scripts for Noiser/Spotify. She also interviews authors at Waterstones and coaches writers at the Bestseller Writing Academy.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
- 2023The TreatmentAuthor
- 2020Witness XAuthor, published as S. E. Moorhead
Podcasts
- 2024Crime Time FMGuest interviewer for conversations with Stuart Turton and Trevor Wood
Quotes
My ideas usually start with a ‘what if…?’Sarah Moorhead, First Drafts interview with J. S. Clerk
Discussing how a question about seeing a crime inside a witness’s brain became Witness X.
Trivia
- She has a black belt in kickboxing.
- She taught novelist Stuart Turton in sixth form.
- She converted a piano into a writing desk.
- She made a miniature bookshop with books by her author friends.
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