Joan Fallon was born in Dumfries, Scotland but spent most of her adult life in England.  Teacher, management trainer and business woman, she moved to Spain at the beginning of the new millennium and, after completing an OU course in Creative Writing, she dedicated herself to full-time writing. She writes both historical fiction and contemporary fiction, including crime novels. She has also written a work of non-fiction which has proved the inspiration for at least two of her subsequent novels. Two aspects of Joan’s life particularly influence her writing. The first is being a woman who grew up during the sixties and seventies—at a time when it was harder for a woman to gain recognition in a man’s world—consequently almost all her books have a strong female protagonist. The second influence is the fact that she has lived in Spain for the last twenty-seven years. Spanish history and culture fascinate her and have provided some of the most exotic settings in her historical novels.

She is currently trying to turn her crime novels, The Jacaranda Dunne Mysteries into a television series