Kim Fleet has an MA and PhD in Anthropology, an MA in English Literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. She lived and worked with Aboriginal people in Australia for a number of years, doing temporary jobs as a tour guide, bus cleaner, store keeper and dental nurse in remote communities, before working as an anthropologist researching land claims cases for Aboriginal people. Her experiences in the outback have informed her murder mystery novels 'Featherfoot' and 'Sacred Site', both of which are set in the Australian outback and feature Aboriginal characters.
Since returning to the UK, she has turned to crime closer to home, writing a crime series set in Cheltenham and featuring PI Eden Grey. The first of these novels, 'Paternoster' was nominated for a Golden Dagger Award. The second, 'Holy Blood' draws on her fascination with religious relics.
Kim has published over 50 short stories in magazines in the UK and abroad, and has won or been shortlisted in over 30 short story competitions. She was interviewed about 'Paternoster' before a sell-out audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2015. She returned to the Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2018 as prose judge for the Gloucestershire Writers' Network writing competition, and has also presented talks at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival and at Bristol Crime Fest.