Bairbre HigginsBorn and educated in Cork, Ireland, Bairbre Higgins worked in Dublin's financial world for sixteen years before focusing full-time on her writing. A period of intensive coast-to-coast business travel in the U.S. helped provide the inspiration for SanFrancisco-based hedge fund partner, Ariel Mignolet, the main protagonist in her debut thriller, The Torchbearers.

Wife of a successful businessman, mother of three children, and servant to two dogs, Higgins believes in the power of curiosity and the fact that education can cure the world's worst ills. Read More Read Less