#1 Bestselling author
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I write the kind of books that I love to read – tense psychological thrillers in which bad things happen to regular people – and I’m inspired by writers such as Harlan Coben, Linwood Barclay, Tana French, Michael Connelly and Lee Child. My books explore themes of loyalty and betrayal, love and hate, trust, jealousy, secrets and revenge.
My books have sold more than two million copies in the UK and have been translated into 22 other languages including French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Korean, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Romanian, Greek and Dutch.
My latest novel The Daughter follows the story of Lauren, who goes to pick up her daughter from university at the end of her first term - only to find the room occupied by a stranger. No-one knows her daughter’s name or recognises her picture, and it soon becomes clear she’s vanished without trace… The Daughter became a Sunday Times bestseller in its first week and is out now in hardback, ebook and audiobook!
The Dream Home (2024) is about a family that moves into a house with terrible secrets, who realise too late that sometimes the past is better left buried. It was preceded by The Mother (2023), a twisty tale of deceit and betrayal, of redemption and revenge - the story of a woman wrongfully convicted of the very worst crime and her fight for justice.
The Catch (2020) is about a father who becomes convinced his daughter is about to marry a man with terrible secrets. A four-part TV adaptation starring BAFTA-winner Jason Watkins is currently available on Netflix UK. The Holiday was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and spent ten weeks in the Sunday Times paperback top ten. It was also made into a four-part TV drama, starring Jill Halfpenny. My other books are The Curfew, Trust Me, Lies and 29 Seconds.
