Helena Tur was born in Ibiza. An only child, she has since childhood developed a tendency to take refuge in reading or in herself and to make up stories. She became acquainted with the works of Jane Austen when she was a teenager and has reread them on numerous occasions. Not surprisingly, she later graduated in philology. After working as a researcher and literary critic, and influenced by authors such as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontë sisters, she wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym of Jane Kelder. Later, under her real name she published Malasangre with Plaza & Janés, but remained faithful to historical fiction, genre fiction and romance. In 2023 she returned to her Austenite origins with the novel En el corazón de Jane (Plaza & Janés, 2023). In La playa del carbón (Plaza & Janés, 2024) she wove a story inspired by the works of Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell. In El caso de la mujer en el estanque, her latest novel, she changes register to a cosy crime set in Biscay at the end of the 19th century.
