Catherine Fearns is a writer and musician from Liverpool, UK. Her Amazon-bestselling Reprobation series of crime fiction novels, first published in 2018, has just been re-released as a boxset from Northodox Press. The first in the series, Reprobation, won a Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal and a Page Turner eBook Award.
Catherine’s first historical fiction novel, All The Parts Of The Soul, is coming in October 2023 from Quill & Crow. She has also been widely published as a music journalist, specializing in heavy metal. She plays guitar and keyboards in the all-female metal band Chaos Rising, and her sheet music compositions are published by Universal Edition.
Catherine currently lives in Switzerland, and has four children, a Tibetan terrier and an axolotl.
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“Every so often, a book comes along that blows you away with its uniqueness. For me, Reprobation by Catherine Fearns is one of those books.” Readers’ Favorite
“Quite a revelation… an immensely brave novel..” GoodReads

Catherine’s crime fiction series (Reprobation, Consuming Fire, Sound, Lamb Of God), set in her beloved home city of Liverpool, is a unique take on the police procedural genre, with a gothic twist, unforgettable characters and a thematic blend of religion, science and music. Reprobation won a Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal and a Page Turner eBook Award. It also had the honour of being turned into a music album by rock band Geva.
The series has been re-released by Northodox Press, available to download HERE
Catherine has been widely published as a music journalist for V13, Broken Amp, Noisey and others. She is also a contributor to radical new academic text Black Metal Rainbows (PM Press), and her short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Writing Magazine, Motherdom, Here Comes Everyone, Toasted Cheese, Offshoots, This Is Lockdown & Metal Music Studies.
She is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association and Geneva Writers’ Group.