Henrietta McKervey is the award-winning writer of five novels. Her psychological suspense The Woman in the Water, inspired by an unsolved puzzle in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, publishes March 2026. A Talented Man (2020) was described as 'Hangover Square meets The Talented Mister Ripley' by novelist Christine Dwyer Hickey. In Violet Hill (2018), a World War I era private detective and a Met Police Super Recogniser work the same case a hundred years apart. The Heart of Everything (2016), which explores the world of three estranged adult siblings forced to reunite when their mother mysteriously disappears, was an Irish Times Book Club choice. Her debut, What Becomes Of Us (2015), is set in 1966, at the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising. She has a Hennessy Award and was the inaugural winner of the UCD Maeve Binchy Travel Award, which was featured by RTÉ, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 6. She curates the ECHOES festival, programmed International Literature Festival Dublin 2025, and contributes on arts, culture and entertainment to the Irish Times, Irish Independent and the Brendan O’Connor show on RTÉ Radio 1. She regularly speaks at book festivals.
Born in Belfast, she now lives in Dublin.
Agent: Margaret Halton
