Aly Monroe

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| birth_place = Leicester

| nationality = British

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| occupation = Novelist

| genre = Thriller

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| website = {{URL|alymonroe.com/}}

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Aly Monroe is a British writer of historical thrillers set in the 1940s. She was brought up in Purley,{{Cite web|title = Aly Monroe: Setting the Place for Icelight|url = http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/feature_view.aspx?FEATURE_ID=181|website = www.shotsmag.co.uk|access-date = 2015-10-03}} England. She has spent a large part of her life in Spain, where she worked as a teacher, translator and voice-over artist.{{Cite web|title = About Aly Monroe|url = http://www.alymonroe.com/aly-monroe.htm|website = www.alymonroe.com|access-date = 2015-10-03}}{{Cite journal|url = http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Biographies&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000204188&source=Bookmark&u=dclib_main&jsid=799f39b5bf5364790ad4e70c7346018a|title = Aly Monroe|date = 2012|journal = Contemporary Authors Online|access-date = 2015-10-03|location = Detroit}} She is the author of the Peter Cotton series of historical novels, including Icelight which won the 2012 Ellis Peters Historical Award.{{Cite web|title = Icelight – The Crime Writers' Association|url = http://thecwa.co.uk/icelight/|website = thecwa.co.uk|access-date = 2015-10-03}}