Edie Baylis

Edie Baylis is a British author of gritty gangland crime fiction set in Birmingham. Originally from the West Midlands, she spent years working as a freelance consultant before turning to writing. She is signed to Boldwood Books. Baylis's Allegiance series — Takeover, Fallout, Vendetta, Payback, and Judgement — follows rival crime families in 1990s Birmingham, where power struggles, betrayal, and shifting loyalties drive the action. Fallout, the second in the series, centres on Samantha Reynold's fight to prove herself as boss while a dangerous secret from the past threatens everything. Her fiction delivers fast-paced, no-holds-barred gangland drama with strong female characters at its centre. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers addictive gangland fiction that brings Birmingham's underworld to vivid, dangerous life.