Faith Martin was born in Oxford and began her working life in a secretarial post at Somerville College. Despite her love for both college life and Oxford academe, Faith had always had an overwhelming desire to become an author, and so left to try her hand at writing professionally.

Faith lives in Bicester, and draws on her knowledge of the nearby thriving canal-boat community, as well as the surrounding Oxfordshire countryside, for her DI Hillary Greene series.