Holding an engineering degree from Cairo University, Noha Daoud transitioned from a corporate career to become one of Egypt’s most successful and bestselling authors of crime fiction. Having honed her craft with a creative writing diploma from Wesleyan University, she has published a string of highly successful whodunits, including Reda, Crime in the Hotel, and Two Corpses and the Third at My Feet. Daoud is celebrated for her unique ability to fuse classic Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries with deep, localized social drama, consistently topping bestseller lists and captivating the Egyptian reading public.