She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Brighton and teaches for Faber Academy and the National Centre for Writing in Norwich.

Their work was performed in "all sorts of venues - from caves in Gloucestershire, to prisons, schools, and major national theatres like the Bristol Old Vic, West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Bush in London.

In the Guardian, Laura Wilson wrote, "Crouch excels at creating an atmosphere of low level menace, slowly ratcheting up the tension to full-on horror for another terrific page-turner.

The central character, Peg, is a lesbian librarian visiting her beloved Nan, who has dementia, and an obese bedridden aunt.

The Lancashire Guardian described Tarnished as "the third and undoubtedly best thriller so far from the pen of Julia Crouch...a masterclass in menace, a slow-burning, psychological story of love, guilt and obsession which takes us into the deepest, darkest corners of the human mind.

"[8] In the Telegraph, Terry Ramsey described the novel as "a memorably disquieting story that twists brilliantly from its humdrum, kitchen-sink opening to a chilling, destructive ending.

"[9] The Long Fall (2014) has a double narrative, moving between the stories of Emma, a young backpacker in Greece, in 1980, and Kate, a prominent charity campaigner in present-day London.

Rachel, a pregnant Instagram influencer, who is determined to lead a perfect life, invites Abbie, her most ardent follower, to work as a live-in mother's helper.